How come students use Cliff's Notes rather than read the text? Minnehaha has written in the student handbook that substituting the reading of a text with the reading guide is considered cheating. It certainly is reassuring to read someone else's thoughts about a text to know one has the right idea; however, the intrigue of reading is to read for one's self by discovering the place, the meaning, the character in one's own mind. Perhaps I am answering my own question. Maybe, if a student is choosing to read a reading guide, there is no instrinsic motivation for discovering the mystery, the beauty, the message individually. Or perhaps there simply is no time in a teenager's life to enjoy the craft of writing and the pleasure of reading.
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