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Cliffnotes.com: Your Stable Study Guide

Cliff Hillegass founded CliffsNotes, Inc., in 1958, with a line of 16 Shakespeare study guides. Jack Cole, owner of Canada's Coles Notes, gave Cliff the idea of starting a US version of the study guides. In 1998 Cliff sold CliffsNotes, Inc., and today the CliffsNotes series is a part of the John Wiley & Sons stable of educational and reference books.

CliffsNotes has long been a trusted study guide for all students from junior high to grad school. CLiffsnotes.com houses all of the CliffsNotes Literature guides. Moreover, all the guides are offered for free. CliffsNotes claims that real teachers and professors write the study guides. Formerly concentrated on literature, now CliffsNotes has developed an entire family of book series to see you through all sorts of tricky classes and intimidating exams.

CliffsNotes provides a summary of all the chapters, making it easier for the students to study. Students consider CliffsNotes to be a shortcut to studying the actual literature. Therefore, CliffsNotes have addressed the students not to depend solely on CliffsNotes, but to study the actual literature too. According to CliffsNotes, the students will be depriving themselves of quality education if they don't refer to the actual literature. According to them, the most appropriate method of using CLiffsNotes would be to read a chapter or segment of the actual literature first, and then read the CliffsNotes version of that same chapter or segment, for review. For more information on the best way to study from a CliffsNotes book, you should check out The CliffsNotes Study Strategy.

The CliffsNotes website is simple, and can be easily explored by anyone with basic internet knowledge. The tag line of the website goes like - "CliffNotes-The Fastest Way to Learn." Towards the top of the screen, you can find various tabs such as Home, Literature, Writing, Foreign Languages, Math, Sciences, More Subjects, Test prep, College, Study break, and Shop. Just below these tabs, you can find an option to browse literature notes in alphabetical order from A-Z. Next to it, towards the right hand side, you can find subject wise free study help. The homepage also features a Featured Topics section.

For better grades, include CliffsNotes study guides with the actual study materials, and don't rely on CliffNotes alone.