How Do You Use Cliffs Notes For Book Reports?
Cliffs Notes can be a saving grace for students with little time to reread an entire novel right before a book report is due. Use Cliffs Notes to speed up your preparation time and give yourself more time to write and turn in your report. Visit the official Cliffs Notes website. Find Cliffs Notes for your particular book by running a search for the book’s title. You may also browse through alphabetical lists or sort the results by literary genre. Click on your book’s title. Read the introduction, brief synopsis, list of characters and character map. Review anything else that is offered in the “About the Novel” section. These links give you a very general overview of the novel. Review the “Character Analyses” section of the Cliffs Notes page for your book. Reading these character analyses helps you get a better grasp of the main characters involved in the book. Skim over the “Critical Essays” section. The essays help you start critically analyzing the work and determine an appropriate l