How I got a First Class in EVERY Essay at University (Part 1) | The Best Essay Technique

what is going on guys my name is Kenji and welcome back to my channel if it's the first time you watching one of my videos I am a third year medical students and in King's College London as some of you might know that I actually have a degree in biomedical science today is a Tuesday and I have a three thousand word essay to write and because of that I thought it'd be a really good idea to take you guys through how I write my essays don't only show you guys the exact method that I use that's right all of my essays in biomedical science and it's also actually the exact same method that I used to ride my first publication which should be by there and that's exactly method that I use my first publication and all of my essays all my assignments in medical school as well so without further ado let's get started right it's the first thing that I do when starting to write an essay is I open up to Microsoft Word documents so I'll just go ahead and do that right now so here's the first Ottoman I have here's a second one as well the first document I'm going to name essay notes so to put that middle essay notes and in the second word document I want to call that essay if you once I have that done I then go on to start dividing my essay into the relevant parts so I want to have an introduction I'm going to have a main body and also conclusion and also at the end I'm gonna have my references okay and what I want to do is I want to copy the copy this four months into my essay notes page and I'll explain what this is in just a second okay so the two pages I have the first page is my s8 Minister page the SNS page is essentially where I want to put all of my notes so when I do some research and I find something interesting or something quite profound which I think really needs to be in the essay I'm gonna come over here and then copy that you know part of the text into this essay notes essentially what it's going to produce after a while is one huge document with all of the relevant information on the essay topic which I think the really really needs to be included and then the second document is going to be where actually write the essay and I'll so show you guys exactly how I write the essay later on using the essay notes but as a summary the see notes page is to collect all the information that I need to read the essay and the essay pages we're actually go on to write the essay itself right so once that's done it's time to start actually looking for information which I'll need to produce this essay so what you want to do is go to to PubMed so if you go to google and you type in PubMed it's the first thing that comes up I'm not entirely sure if you guys have heard this before but essentially what PubMed is is a database of all of the research papers currently out there right now so it's kind of a Google I guess you can say for research papers and the thing is when you're writing essays a university you don't want to use textbooks anymore you don't use Wikipedia you don't really use websites anymore and I remember the first essay that I ever wrote in University I've got 40% and the past month was 40% so I just about passed and the reason why I got 40% is I didn't use any research articles I just used like literally like websites and books and stuff like that but the thing with these and resources that are not up to date and if you use something like PubMed you get all of the research papers that are really up to dates and from really two journals as well okay so we wanna do is go to the search bar and type in whatever topic you're currently on so for example right now my topic is on erectile dysfunction following prostatectomies so I want to write the topic right here erectile dysfunction prostatectomies prostatectomy and then what it should do is give you a list of all of the research papers that are currently out there right now if as I said it's very very up to date and what you want to do is come up here and click sort by make sure that it's on best match and then we also want to do is click free full text because obviously student budgets I don't have a status shooter going to be paying for papers and pain to read papers okay so what you want to do is go through and you know all of these different papers read the titles and see what is best to start on what I do recommend start on is to start by reading review papers and then once you have a general idea of what the topic is through review papers you want to then go on to action look at clinical trials and primary papers to kind of explain what these are a review paper is BAE a paper which was written by someone who didn't do any research themselves they didn't do anything in the lab so it's kind of like a summary of the topic and it's a really really good way to get started when trying to you know scope a topic and understand what is going on before you move on to the specific papers which will be the primary papers the primary papers is different so primary papers are novel things that people have done so these are people who are in the labs do research you know you know the actual cells doing experiments themselves and they write this into a primary paper so this is their own like a unique work this is all the you know brand new work the Vator themselves which is what you want to go into later on once you have a good idea of the whole topic as a whole so what you want to do is also start off by clicking review as I said all of these right here will be a review the whole topic so you want to spend maybe a couple of hours maybe you know reading up to like you know five to ten review papers so what I'll do for example is click click this especially because that sounds quite interesting it sounds like it covers the topic that once you wonder then try to get access to this paper so click on the full text links over here in the corner so I'll go ahead and click that once that's clicked you should have the whole paper just right here in front of you sometimes you don't sometimes you need to do a bit of digging it's fine paper but normally is quite easy to get the paper and then what you want to do is download the PDF copy so you should go you should be able to find PDF somewhere normally it's in the top right corner here but if it's not you can just save it as a PDF itself what I'm going to do is make a new folder on my desktop I'm gonna call this let's say essay within the essay folder I want to make a new folder called papers so this is exactly where I want to store store all of my research papers everything that I read will be stored in this folder right here and now what I do personally is to save it by a number and so I'll explain why later on why I do that but I want to start by calling it number one and I'll save it in there so I should have it on my desktop now so I wanna open up those papers and there it is that's my first research paper saved okay so what you want to do is as I said to find maybe five to ten different review articles and start doing some research start doing some reading what I tend to do now is to get a highlighter and go through the whole paper and you know highlight anything that I think is really important something that I think definite should be in the introduction and the main body or the conclusion so let's say I found this first this first paper right here really really intriguing very very profound I think definitely has to be in there while dues or highlighters and then once I go through the whole paper you know once I've read it and I've highlighted everything I need to know I then come back to paper and copy it so I click copy text and I'll paste it into the essay notes document where as I said I'll have all of my research information I think is very relevant so go in there and I'll paste it the annoying thing is that it kind of messes up the formats so you want to quickly just fix the format right here make sure it in a bullet point and there we are that's our first you know sort of information that we think will be really really relevant for the abduction what is really important as well is to make sure that you you remind yourself of where you got this information because once you have the whole you know essay notes completely done you want to know where you got the information from because when you come back to referencing it and referencing wave obvious information from you can end up forgetting unless you have a method or a system to remember where you got it from I said what I do is I put in brackets the number so as I told you before I named the first document or the first paper by number so the first one I named number one so because I got this information from that paper I'm going to come back here and put brackets 1 so now I know straight away that this first bullet point came from that paper called number one so I need one I need to reference it later on I can just come back to the paper and you know go back to name the paper and know exactly where I got the information from so you want to do this for the introduction the main body and conclusion as well to get more of an idea of what you want to write about once this is all done once this is all written now then you start reading primary papers so when you feel like you have a good idea of you know what the topic is about of what you want to write you want to come back over here and go back to where we started from but instead of clicking a review you want to remove the review and look for primary pages itself even you can either click clinical trial here or you can go through the papers just normally and look for whatever it looks like a primary paper so if the purposes right now when I click clinical trial and when I starts off by reading the titles and again looking for something that stands out looking for something that we think will be relevant for our study okay so as I said right now I want to find the trials I want to find you know novel things in the field you know whenever you write a paper you want to have you know the most up-to-date information so sometimes it is relevant to go back maybe 50 years to get the information about you know how let's say prostatectomy started for erectile dysfunction so you wanna start off by you know having a few old papers which may be where the first papers ever written on this topic then you want to move on to more recent topics and then in the main body at least you want to start talking about the most latest information or the novel clinical trials which we have right here so what I want to do is find a trial this trial are number one sounds quite relevant so I'm gonna click on it and what I'm gonna do is to do the exact same thing and save it as a PDF copy go to the trial take all the irrelevant information highlights have been copied into the main body or the introduction and that's the first step in getting what we want so there are essentially two ways to find the most up-to-date papers the first is why just mentioned so you know going on to PubMed and searching for clinical trials or looking through the homepage and finding the most relevant information which you think will be the primary papers the second way of doing it is to get these these kind of primary papers from the actual review papers so if we go back to the paper that first started off with so over here is the review paper that we first started off with and what you can kind of do is kind of cheat and steal the papers that they reference themselves so let's say I I was reading this paper here and it became very obvious that's you know this paragraph over here over here was talking about a primary paper let's say that they were referencing like clinical trial oh that you know that they think was very important to know about what I want to do is then go to where they reference it themselves so I'll click on the number right here so number eleven and that should take you to their references and right here it gives you the title of that primary paper that they're talking about so it's a nice little way to to cheat and to go straight to the product paper they're talking about as I said because it is a review article they should normally reference quite a few primary papers which makes it a lot easier for you because they kind of do the hard work for you they review papers kind of do all of the research for you and you can go and steal their clinical trials still the primary papers they talk about and then go copy the title and head back to PubMed open up in a new apartment screen and then copy that copy the title that they have and that should take you straight away to the primary paper again download as PDF have a read of it and see whether or not it's relevant to add to your essay so let's say that all the research is done normally this takes me quite a few hours to get my essay notes completely you know filled up to a level where I think that I'm ready to write the paper but let's say that it's all done now I want to take you guys through to my essay notes that I've already done my sauce to spit earlier on so I really do have like quite a bit of essay notes already someone open up my essay notes just now okay so here we are so what I want to do straightaway is open up my essay notes in combination with my essay itself this makes it very easy to have a look at what I've written in my essay notes and to rephrase this and you know write it in a way that makes sense into my introduction and so allows me to do two things at the same time it is quite useful to have a secondary monitor so as you can see over there I normally work with my laptop or straight up to my monitor so I have my essay notes up on my screen and then on my laptop I have my essay itself but for the purposes this video and also like if I'm in the library or from somewhere without my screen this is exactly what I do so what I wanted to do is to start writing the introductions self-sow thing is you want to make sure you don't plagiarize and plagiarism is a huge thing University so what we want to do is have a read of your essay notes and as you're reading essay notes you want to rephrase it and make it your own words so it's not it's not taking up for copyright so I'm just going to do that right here sonal writes prostate cancer is one of the most common malignancies in males and it's being diagnosed more than ever before okay so this is just as a quick example okay so let's say I've gone through and I've done this for the whole introduction let's just say that you know the instructions completely written what you want to do is as you're writing these this introduction you want to also start to mature reference it's a lot easier to reference as you go along because you know you know exactly why you're getting the papers from it saves a lot of time rather than coming back to the end and you know doing all your references once so I want to show you guys now exactly how I do my references what you want to do before you start is to toast University and to make sure that you have the right essays the right referencing style that they use so I know we tend to use Vancouver if they don't specify a lot of the times in university that will let you choose whatever you want and I highly recommend the Vancouver system a lot of people use the Harper system as well but the thing was the thing with the Harvard system is that I just don't find as clean because the references are actually in your in your writing whereas in the Vancouver system you use a number instead to reference and also is kind of an allergic word will count overall as well okay so in order to reference what you want to do is to make an account with refworks there are loads of different referencing software's out there I just prefer to use refworks since what I've used my whole life so we're gonna go to refworks login to refworks as you can see refworks comm make an account i'm just going to login straightaway to my account and then once you're logged into the website you can see all these all my references i've used in the past you wanna go back to your Microsoft Word document and login to refworks on the actual document you do have to kind of install this as a plugin you have refworks on your word I'm not gonna go through this right now Goines refworks it should have all of the information on there about how to do this okay so once you make an account with refworks refworks essentially what you want to do is to comment on Microsoft Word click the insert tab up here and then click get add-ins and then what we want to do is to search for refworks itself then click Add and this is going to add a new panel on the side which is going to be your citation manager we're going to allow you to to cite all of the references that you want to do what you want to do is then go back to PubMed and for each paper that you add and the each paper you want to write-n-cite 8 what you want to do is to just save it as a citation so I'll show you how to do that right now so let's say I really wanted to use this miss a review paper over here what I'm gonna do is click send to so just quickly show you guys how I got here again in case you forgot let's go back to the first page so let's say yes so let's say I really wanted this paper I searched for it I found it we want to do is to click on it straight away and then go to send to and then click citation manager I then click create file what we want to do is make a new folder for all of your citations all these citation files and don't worry it's making something much sense now it all makes sense eventually so go back to your essay file that's the folder we made earlier on you wanna make a new folder called citations and then save all your citations here so because we named the first paper number one when a call is number one as well what you want to do after this is to go back to your refworks in the actual website and we wanted to click off that is import so cliff imports in the bottom right over there as i did you wanna then choose the file that you just saved so go back to where I've saved so citations and number one make sure that is on to PubMed and that's on PubMed as well and then click import what is this going to do is it's going to download it and import any reference and reference it exactly as it should be Segura has to do anything onto that and then click view last imported folder and this right here is the citation we just imported so as you can see there's a tight tool there's all of the author's the source as well and pretty much all the information you need to know when referencing and a paper we want to do now is to go back to your Microsoft Word and then find it exactly where it should be so it should just pop up right here at the top as minded over here and then you want to go to where you want to add the citation and then click quick sites as you can see it's generating citation so it's added a number here for you of exactly where what the citation is and then down the references below it's added it to your reference list so you know she kind of has to go back and forth and do this for every single paper you cite but what you'll find later you cite multiple sentences for the same paper so now that I have this already saved as a citation let's say I wrote something else in the next page so let's say a different sentence just just over here you can go straight back to this area here click quick sites and all cite that sentence for you so once you've saved one citation you can reuse it constantly you have to keep going back and forth but you do have to do this for every new paper that you find and yes it could be time-consuming in my dissertation in my final year biomedical science it took me hours to get my citations right because I had over a hundred citations once you get this done for a three thousand word essay it shouldn't be too bad and you should be able to do it in another time hopefully so that is pretty much it guys I want to show you guys it's give you guys feel about how I like to do my essays so I'll take you guys through how it is research how I then use the research to write the information itself onto my essay and then finally how I reference all of this and complete the essay so I really hope this has been informative for you guys I know it's been confusing try up yourself you kind of have to do it yourself to get an idea of what it's like if you have any questions at all please let me know down below and I'll be happy to answer them for you make sure you subscribe maybe make sure you give this video a thumbs up if you found it useful as well good luck on your essay and I'll see you guys in the next one

Channel: Kenji Tomita

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Length: 19min 45sec (1185 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 20 2019