A speaker walks through writing a research paper the right way: consulting multiple sources, citing them, typing it yourself. He also jokes about shortcuts like copying Wikipedia or downloading existing papers, mentions cheap Fiverr proofreaders, and notes that colleges penalize plagiarism with failing grades or removal.
Alright guys, so I just recently finished doing my research paper for school, and I thought I'd give you guys some tips and tricks on how you can do yours. So obviously, as you can see right here, in this paper I'm going to be doing the cell. So let's go ahead and open up Google real quick, and— oh, you were not supposed to see that. That's alright, just ignore that. So start off by taking your topic and Googling it. So we're doing the cell right now, and just go to Wikipedia. It's pretty reliable, even though anyone can go on Wikipedia and change whatever they want. It's still really, really reliable source. Pick something that looks kinda interesting. Yeah, that looks interesting. We'll take this and yeah, we'll do that. Head back over to your Word document, Ctrl+V, saves you a little bit of time because I know right-clicking and hitting paste can take forever to do. And then go back, get— we'll just take all this and we'll take these two, the pictures with them, why not? I mean, pictures will bring your paper to life. And, uh, there you go. Oh dude, this looks beautiful. Um, yeah, I think I'm done. There you go, that's how you do your paper. Now obviously that was a joke. Everyone knows you can't use pictures in your research paper. I'm just kidding with you guys. Now it's just something that I've been thinking about because I just finished mine not too long ago, like yesterday. I finished my research paper and I actually did it legit. Like, I went through a bunch of websites, I cited everything, and I, you know, I didn't copy and paste, I actually typed it all out. And it looks kinda good, it's a legit paper. But I kinda thought to myself, once I was done, I was like, "Couldn't I have just copied and pasted something I found off the internet?" And by the way, since I'm talking about paper, on a website called fiverr.com, you can pay like college teachers or people that used to be college professors to look at your paper and correct any typos and make sure all your sentences have proper flow and things like that, and they'll do it for only $5. I don't have any money right now, or I would, but I just thought I'd throw that out there since I'm talking about papers. But yeah, like, you could literally get any paper on any subject off the internet, and I don't know, I just— I mean, obviously you're not gonna copy and paste it because the teacher could just type in a random phrase and see that you copied and pasted it just by typing in, you know, part of it into Google. But what if you legitimately took a paper? Like, what if someone did a paper, you downloaded it, and then you changed, like, you changed a lot of words? I'm not talking about just changing, like, every, uh, like, one or two words every sentence. You changed a lot of words but used the same structure and outline. I mean, you could pull that off and not get caught. I didn't do that. I probably should have. It would have saved me a lot of time. But I just— something I didn't think about, like, it's all out there on the internet. Like, you think there's so many papers that people have written, they can't get you for copyright if you just download someone's random paper, change a couple words. I don't know, I feel like I'm making sense, but I feel like I'm not. I'm pretty sure you understand what I mean though. Like, there's so many people have done papers and there's so many papers on the internet. You can find one done by a random 15-year-old like halfway across the United States, uh, change a couple sentences here and there, just change up the structure a little bit, and then just use his paper. It's not what I did, but I don't know, I feel like you could if you wanted to. And I feel like it would make doing a research paper extremely easy if you're just that lazy. Um, to be honest, I didn't think about it earlier, but actually I'm not even gonna say if I would have done it or not, if I would have thought about it earlier. But I don't know, I just wanted to talk about that. I guess that would make doing papers in college a lot easier, but, uh, you know, in college you really have to be careful because if you get caught with plagiarism in college, then you'll get kicked out and you're screwed out of a lot of money. So— or not kicked out, you'll just, you know, get kicked out of the class, not out of college, or I hope not out of the college, and you'll just lose a lot of money. But, uh, I don't know, just felt like throwing that out there. Let me know what you think. I'm curious, like, has anyone out there ever just completely ripped off a research paper or paper or anything and just used it as their own and gotten away with it? Because like, that's awesome if you have. I mean, the amount of time that would save you, and especially if you got a good grade on it, that's pretty cool.
