Pitzer and a few other observers have combed through that knotty Nobel lecture Dylan delivered last week and found a number of phrases resembling ones found on SparkNotes, the literary summary ...

Bob Dylan may have plagiarized portions of his Nobel Prize lecture from SparkNotes, an online version of CliffsNotes, according to a new piece from Andrea Pitzer on Slate. Pitzer uncovered the ...

Yet, she still does well on tests. Her secret? She uses Sparknotes. Perhaps it is not so much a secret as a well known fact. The majority of students know about Sparknotes, the printed and online ...

Remember SparkNotes? In high school, you probably used the literature guides to quickly cram for the English quiz you forgot to study for ... because you also forgot to read the book. Good times ...

However, SparkNotes has recently been translating classic lit into a language even more relevant to teenagers than English: The brand’s Twitter account is explaining the stories of Hamlet ...

I’ll admit it: I was the student that tipped the teacher off that half of our English class, including me, was using SparkNotes to “read” “Twelfth Night” by Shakespeare, instead of ...

SparkNotes, a website of study guides, was born out of that insight, and within seven months, the co-founders started fielding acquisition offers. In less than a year, Yagan went from a college ...

However, I soon discovered that the Moby-Dick line Dylan dreamed up last week seems to be cobbled together out of phrases on the website SparkNotes, the online equivalent of CliffsNotes.

Whether you know them as CliffsNotes, SparkNotes or Shmoop, these seemingly ubiquitous guides are now, in many cases, free. “Two to three years ago, the wisdom was that students do research ...

Slate magazine spotted 20 similarities between Dylan's speech and a study website used by students Bob Dylan may have plagiarised his Nobel Prize lecture from SparkNotes, an online version of ...