APA Research Papers... (I Don't Like Them)

Those research papers I did in high school are nothing compared to the papers I had to do in the class I took for a few months (Also a reason for not uploading for a while). Best wishes to those that have to take this class and if you don't....then good for you. Enjoy the video. Fun Fact: I actually managed to finish this thing in a week. Goes to show how much I missed doing this.
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[@OneFrugalIntrovert]

I can relate to this video. I’m in grad school, so every paper I write is in APA format. APA sucks (Jerrica, 2019).

[@matpikachu]

Jerrica Haha....I think basically any science major needs APA style. 😥

[@TrentonOlson]

Hey guys check out this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/rICpkKKnqaioiqM

[@OneFrugalIntrovert]

Anel No, I just didn’t want to list my last name on here lol

[@chaoticpix93]

perdue owl if you search for it will have everything APA you could ever want! :)

[@dearwitchdiary]

Jerrica lmao

[@PeaceKING]

How is not having an opinion fair in APA? How is not having any creative fashion fair? You Basically have to plagiarize without plagiarizing.

[@PeaceKING]

Also she more than likely saw this lol

[@YoungYongTales]

pretty much haha

[@gustavohurlimann9418]

It is not supposed to be creative, it is a research paper. I feel like High School in the US gives you false expectations what College really is about

[@audreywhalen5141]

Gustavo Hürlimann And I feel like college in the US gives you false expectations about what real life is really about. Who cares if it’s what gives you a passing grade. That doesn’t make it good that you’re taught that way.

[@Tombee2]

Basically they care about what happened and why it happened not who and how did it happen.

[@ambermoon2326]

As a psych major, I can confirm that we had something very similar that we had to suffer through T_T

[@leavemychannelaloneiquit840]

*311* are you scared?

[@chaoticpix93]

I was not aware of APA until college and I was also royally screwed. Also: perdue owl is literally that APA style book in website form and was a godsend. People don't realize, there wasn't just rules for citations, there were rules for formatting your paper! Including the header!

[@sungri2609]

was not expecting to see Jungkook 😂😂😂

[@YoungYongTales]

It's for all the BTS fans haha

[@sungri2609]

Young Yong Tales lol good luck with your studies 😏💜✌

[@user-bf8gv1sq2z]

@@YoungYongTales thank you 😌🙏

[@kagz76]

@@YoungYongTales ily no homo

[@tino2129]

Me either but i did wanted to see bts in it though

[@katerocks82196]

One thing I do like about APA compared to MLA is that while in MLA you have to cite the specific page # you pulled the information from in APA an in-text citation just consists of the authors of the work and the year the work was published

[@Ellaforeverlife2014]

APA only required the page number in an in-text citation if you are using a direct quote, but most people don't do that. In fact I don't think I've seen a professional research article with a direct quote.

[@mastertren]

@@Ellaforeverlife2014 yeah, they usually don't. they just use in-text if there any use of info from the research paper.

[@briannahoff8589]

I may not like having to follow a citation style to the extremes that college expects, but honestly, APA is way better than MLA, Turabian, etc. I think all the "no-creativity" and "you have to cite everything or you're plagiarising" is just true of every college paper I've written. What's sad to me is that it takes more time to format and cite than to actually write the paper... pathetic!

[@allialuzong2342]

Amen on that last one. All the deductions I ever got were because of those. And yeah research writing isnt about style anyway but it isn't impossible to write with a certain 'tone' in APA format. Naturally, of course, you wont be writing anything entertaining because that isnt the point.

[@Heres_To_Music]

I agree on the plagiarism point. Also, citations work to build a nice house of cards that work to prove a point not just some theoretical work because someone is running behind on an essay. I disagree on the in-text citations, as they clutter the text (and over citing is the norm for me) and distract a person from the main point. In Chicago style at least you could just use footnotes and use "Ibid." to get to the point.

[@MA-rc2eo]

I remember the day that my professor asked me, "hey can I use your paper as guideline for the next semester?" I said yea. I felt happy and capable.

[@WolfStreak]

That's awesome.

[@Snoopy-ju3ik]

Dude I'm laughing so hard XD I hadn't gotten around to watching this until today when I needed a mental break from doing what other than writing my research paper XD I feel you about the word writing style though. Instead of using MLA like I've always been taught, they're making us use Chicago Turabian style (which is 86336774337763367523774 times more complicated than MLA). Anywho, I've been sick a lot this semester, so rn I'm writing the whole paper that's due on Monday..... yeah I'm probably like that stupid guy working on his at 5 AM XD (although I hope I'm not up that late 😶) Anywho, thanks for providing a much needed mood lightener for another suffering college student 😜

[@YoungYongTales]

Shannon Hohndorf aaye yeah good luck on your paper! Stay strong!

[@Snoopy-ju3ik]

Young Yong Tales Thanks lol 😎

[@TheTiaisamazing]

Lol, as a psych major I can completely understand the dread of research methods 😂 my TA was super strict when grading; no one got better than a 90 on our papers, but usually the average was 80

[@TheTiaisamazing]

Also, I ended with an A- by some magic??

[@emmaelisha1339]

Research Methods was horrible and the entire class did horrible mostly cause of the teacher but in digress.....hoorrriibblllee

[@MichaelJaeYT]

hahaha I loved this video 3:18 I need to watch Thor still but yeah TLJ had that same Marvel humor lol

[@Nguyen-pw3zv]

Michael Jae this is the third time I saw you

[@elstongaming7520]

Can you sub to me

[@danilomadalijr4979]

Lol thought it was a fake account

[@betsiguerrero5465]

As a psych major I can confirm APA is a pain in the ass but hey at least you hd to do 10 sources minimum per investigation... I had to do 30 minimum

[@WolfStreak]

30?!

[@ryanle6064]

Wait....what?! You could buy a t-shirt that says “I survived Psych 311!”? Wow that class is hard

[@dizzydiz]

why does this sounds like my entire college career though...... teachers even said they'd call the police on us if the reference aren't done correctly 💀

[@tjadams8654]

This was way to accurate, thanks for making this video! Apa is such a pain in my side and it took me 3 years to get good at it.

[@GG_galaxyguts]

My high school was finally selected for the AP Capstone program. So this year I have a 2 part class, first year is AP seminar and the next year is AP research. I'm writing my first ever research paper using Apa and...yes it does suck. So far we only need 3 sources but we soon will need at least 10- And yes, this is a class in high, worth college credits-

[@noahburton2729]

This was very good! Love the animation style :)

[@Kuro-zn7ph]

omg you nailed it. Especially with the creativity part. I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate APA.

[@Patboi617]

So if i say 311 you guys get scared.... Well: *311*

[@YoungYongTales]

I survived the class....Nd I'm not going back

[@RajeshPatel-de1hq]

ono ono its 311:[ ]aaaaaaa

[@ryderforpresident]

*wets pants* STAY AWAY!! BE GONE DEMON *grabs chair and pushes back*

[@eggy9532]

why are you here GET AWAY FROM ME, OH SHIT NOT 311 AHHHHH!

[@rafliarrasyd5753]

AHHHHH CALL 911 *BOOP BOOP BOOP* 911 what's your emergency SOMEONE SAID 311 OH MY GOD, WELL IM OUT BYE *BEEP BEEP BEEP SHUTDOWN*

[@Hunnybunchessxd]

I'm a forensic psych major and I am dreading 311 you know it's the hardest cause it's worth the most credits. I keep skipping that class but I will eventually have to take it

[@confused8898]

Well i hope you pass😁

[@flaviourbina7531]

~Good Luck! 👍😂

[@peaceglomper]

It’s really not bad at all if you follow guides carefully and give yourself time to go over your paper more than once. Owl Perdue is a great one and most university libraries have online guides too. It helps to read other paper’s and see how they cite things too.

[@reikonatsume9775]

I relate to this so much 😭 its so hard when most of my group mates won’t even help. Finishing the whole research feels worth it though ☺️

[@SpooxX]

At my university, we have PSY 304 aka Basic Research Methods. See, I would rather do research papers than what we did in this class. We got a team at the beginning of the semester, and together we had to do 4 experiments and write papers on our results. All as a team. While our instructor basically made up rules as she went 👍 Also, I learned MLA in high school, wrote in APA and Chicago for 2 years, and now I have a teacher that wants MLA again and I don't remember anything 😑

[@ferdsmand_]

Dude this video helps a lot in research paper! Thanks!!

[@Electric0Gravity]

This is psyc 290, and 291 in my school. And yes, I wore a tshirt that said "I'm one standard deviation of losing my mind" 😂

[@bev547]

*I started doing APA in 6th grade.*

[@patience4368]

Bless ur soul

[@pennyandpenelopeanimate6302]

SAME

[@mastertren]

well, good for you...I'm been in uni for nearly 3 years and I'm still struggling to write a piece of decent report with APA style.

[@mastertren]

maybe I'm just dump..

[@yvngxshady]

rip

[@stephenbarnes7241]

Hey! I have the APA manual! My first semester of grad school was learning to write in APA and scientific writing. But thankfully, it's almost second nature once you understand the basics of the writing style: especially in-text citations, level headings, and the reference list (Dipshit et al., 2019)

[@carlievoce3310]

As a psychology major, that class has been my hardest class yet. My research paper in APA was the very first paper that I CRIED over. I feel this on a spiritual level.

[@forkdraws7297]

Love your videos!

[@cleo31373]

I am a fellow Psych major and have suffered the equivalent of that class but it was called "Research Methods" and we had the class be the experiment. Like we had to fill out a survey online and compare depression and anxiety scores to things like friendships, exercise, and relationships. You are so right with the creativity, I put down "Forming friendships is very important in childhood" and the professor wrote "SOURCE???" and I thought it was common knowledge that friendships were important. In the end I had to source every freaking idea and back it up and god it was so grating.... to other psych majors good luck.

[@leiacarolina79]

I am currently fighting against a work that I have to write in APA format and this comes up in my recommendation... you are so right about everything

[@TheVampirequeen2009]

In US you only have one class in which you do this, as a psych major? I had minimum 3 classes per semester that asked for this, in Romania, with the same requirements.. weird

[@allialuzong2342]

Had 6 where they kept teaching the format in what I think was escalating difficulty. So it would make sense why he found it really difficult since he only had one. Really though, it isn't that hard to avoid plagiarism in APA format. The minor format issues were still a bitch to learn though.

[@gavinriley5232]

Depends on the major and college. I’m in physics and I have seven classes on experimental techniques. Specifically differing in proper research techniques in different branches. Quantum mechanics requires different experimental techniques than particle physics, theoretical physics, yada yada.

[@LiLzZluvinJ]

Green Potatoa It’s different for each university. My university has it as a year long class that’s optional because not everyone in psychology is going into graduate school for psychology. It’s not needed for grad school, but it looks good on your application if you have it and it really helps with knowing how to do and read research.

[@MissGenie0607]

I had a class like this every semester

[@Aly-ym9yi]

I'm just starting at a community college majoring in psychology. I love it so much. Just wish me luck on some of these classes, cause I've heard some terrifying things.

[@musicaltater4646]

Im a music therapy major and oh man this video resonates so hard...we love APA 😅

[@jesusflores4418]

Your vids get better and better

[@MissSophiana]

EVERYTHING I have to do for my undergrad Psychology is in APA, yeah it's dry, but after a while the format is actually kinda a blessing, because it takes no actual thought of your own and you can just watch other stuff in the background 😂 and it's insane they told you to back everything up, but you only had 10ref. I just did a five page case study APA and I had nearly three pages of refraining

[@paigebieber-styles8088]

I relate so much to your writing training. High school taught MLA and college is 95% APA. Hated every second of it.

[@rhondajohnson8310]

Just watching this and this is soo true. I'm getting my masters in Marriage and Family and I am having the same experiences. Hope things are better for you now. I HATE APA!! Thanks for this post!

[@QuadLyStop]

Jesus, I had to make a psychology research, APA style, at the end of highschool. Passed it, luckly...

[@sleepyella]

Wow, I just finished an experimental psychology class I had to write an APA essay for, and got this video recommended the weekend before finals

[@HeyAHappyHuman]

1:44 I'm in highschool, and that's exactly how I was taught how to write papers.

[@Ilovepawprintproject]

Yeah for me APA was the only citation style at uni, and we went from APA 6th for two years to APA7th the rest, and all the small changes it made were both great and horrible, great cause the author mentions went down, but horrible cause little commas and how to cite specific things changed Anywho, thanks for bringing that trauma up 😂 great video ❤️

[@LuxrayLloyd]

Your Video Brought Me Pain & School Related Anxiety/Stress (Still Fun THough XD)

[@viin825]

This really surprised me because I'm just graduating high school in Australia and since I was in grade 7, we were always taught to write in APA format and I have never heard of MLA.

[@weedynaruto1234]

very relatable. great video

[@stanklemons]

apa is super duper important to research and credibility. more often than not you’ll actual find that despite the strict citation rules, even PhDs misconstrue info from other studies in their own studies. if you have the ability to ever take a research class or like....do research on the history of research or “how to tell if this research is good” is actually hella fun and super satisfying. what you learn can help tons in academia.

[@ghenesapaulma1963]

I laughed at the horizontal-line thing in the tables 😂😂 But to tell you the truth, just wanting to share this, APA has been a standard format since I could remember in my school years. So when you expressed your distress over the APA format and the backed-up article thing, I honestly cannot relate 😅 Yea, it's tiring to search for those studies that will help back your study up, but it's not really that bad. In fact, it helps us in formulating our conclusions.

[@yugivee]

We used APA for research and it really messed with my writing because my writing is now plain and boring, straight to the point and very short

[@cassieellison3459]

I'm a psych major and I completely understand. We had 3 classes on doing research papers/ using apa/ statistics so I feel this PAIN

[@Elyse4point0]

XD ok the point about the space taking away so many points was totally true, but I actually honestly love APA.

[@Gabcookie]

Psych major and I feel the same :))) the lecture was a breeze but those damn papers....

[@lilduck5899]

I like your videos and i really think you deserve more subscribers.

[@DarthBane113]

As a psych major and as a guy getting his Masters in Counseling, I feel the pain of APA. And I absolutely loathe reading it, because the in text citations break up my train of thought.

[@anitacrumbly]

OMG THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a fellow psych major

[@ZannaDont416]

As I watched I thought, “As a grad student with a paper due next week, this video gave me anxiety” (Rosanna Sad Grad, 2019). 😭😭😭

[@principal_optimism]

I'm currently doing an education course, and every assignment is APA. Somehow I managed to only figure it out this semester, but you're right. You're not allowed to have an original thought if it isn't based on prior research... thinking about it stresses me out.

[@casseroledragon3277]

I relate so hard. MLA is so easy and APA is so finicky and specific 😂 Like I got docked a WHOLE. LETTER. GRADE. for using "don't" instead of "do not." ONCE. Just...no fun 😅

[@LorvicMeow]

Binge watching your videos I came up to this... I finished my PhD in Education Science and this hits sooooo close to home XD

[@samanthawh8272]

This video is so relatable I have a intro to pysc class in my human service foundations course which is a prep course for ssw we are doing these apa papers but we only need 3 source and 4-5pgs

[@anFFAgirl]

Monsta X!!!! 3:18 😄 you, sir, are blessed!

[@Bexy1]

I’m in the U.K. studying Psychology and all of our papers have to be written in the APA 6th format... It’s not quite a bad as you had it bc they help us quite a bit and are a little lenient on formatting correctly but... man... I felt that ‘too many horizontal lines in the table’ and ‘having to back up every single statement you make with research papers’ because there is ZERO EXAGGERATION 😂

[@Bexy1]

Also I once spent 13 hours straight on one 1500 word paper (that I already had the data for) and a good half/ 3/4 of my time was spent researching papers

[@flash-cu7kh]

Amazing video

[@julia2367]

I also graduated undergrad with a Psychology degree. APA style was so annoying but definitely prepared me for my masters in social work..so many papers. And ALL sources had to be under 10 years old. So hard!

[@kimberlyrios3718]

I have that APA manual, it was only 12 bucks but useful when I need it to write references from time to time!

[@Bavin789]

I’m a PSYC major and u just gave me anxiety lool

[@courtneybrown4352]

At my school, it is called RDSA. Research Design Statistics and Analysis. There is part 1 with a lab where we learn about research, how to read articles and search for them, write a literature review, etc. Then there is part two, with a lab, where we conduct our own research study that has to get approved and we learn a lot of statistics and how to use SPSS, and then write the entire paper, attend a conference and talk about it, and then present it in class, with other small assignments. Glad I am done with that lol.

[@aminationstm8677]

Oh my gosh this is so relatable, English major.

[@diegojimenez5251]

Hey i like youre videos and i love the animations i think their funny and i also like bugs and insects so yeah... I also like aquarioms

[@naomi3911]

Literally everything you said is relatable. My major is Psy and APA papers were stupid a.f and still is

[@mcdadais]

Social work/ sociology major here. Did APA. Never thought it was hard. Always got A and B papers. Advice for anyone writing papers. Sometimes it's better to get the paper done with a few errors than not turning it in or turning it in late. If you're rushed for time try to get it done, don't try to make it perfect

[@memoryaebdc]

You’re character?! Wow it’s nice

[@espearite3]

I could NOT concentrate on this guy's point because of his hilarious mannerisms and graphics. I laughed through the whole thing. Btw, l went through uni doing nothing but APA. Meh, you get used to it. 😋

[@gaarakabuto1]

There are a couple of APA alternatives, in our uni we have to just choose one of them, the idea is exactly the same, the main that that my uni does is that they actually hardly accept any recourse given prior to a decade ago as outdated, meaning that you have to either find a relatively newer paper that confirms or builds upon what the older papers found or simply move for something different. I guess if you have to do that for 5 years you get used to it and you can actually find ways to be creative, of course at the cost of backing any kind of creative thought with validated research which results into double the research you have to do. It is whatever, it helps out a lot on your thesis I guess.

[@argenticrux9266]

Sooo true. But the thing is... I'm still in highschool. We had to do research papers not only to pass a class, but to graduate. We also had to face panelists and stuff. If we don't hand in the complete papers, we don't get to gradute.

[@rileyevans6339]

I have a similar class at my uni - psy303, having two research papers, basing them of raw datasets we were provided to use. I just finished the class with a b+, ONLY because there were assignments to buffer my grade. APA sucks!! That class was my sole sourse of stress this last term.

[@gabrieladelmar4668]

My FBI guy knows im freaking out over this class. This just randomly appeared in my recommended

[@morganrs97]

We do this also in Political Science but we’re allowed to take a bit more of creative liberties because a lot of times our thesis is a new or not previously researched idea so there isn’t much to pull from

[@JackJames-exe]

Oh my gods I understand this, don’t even get me started on the different kinds of styles (apa, mla, chicago ect) I’ve had to do so many of them ugh. University man, oof

[@Yipper64]

1:16 i think ive been taught APA and MLA (thanks college) but i remember nothing about both.

[@anthonymarquez6493]

I hate APA just had to finish one last night

[@angelwatkins4914]

this is severely accurate. my media writing class sucks a$$

[@Killerrabbitjc]

*Sees Terran adjutant likes the video, subscribes taps the bell icon*.

[@hopebadger]

Also, the 6th edition is about to be invalid because the 7th edition is coming out soon

[@WolfStreak]

Yeah, and I think it's conveniently coming out in the middle of the school year. Smh

[@frappes_]

I'm a high school student, and knowing both MLA and APA at an early age (I've written for both) , ad suffering pretty early too, will HOPEFULLY make this shit easier in college

[@lucyreed7995]

oh god, I relate to this on a spiritual level.

[@wilsontheknight]

I got an A on both the class and the lab. And the APA research papers helped me tremendously with my other psy classes and sociology classes (I’m a sociology minor)

[@nakashimamichiyo6073]

Omg😂😂 I almost thought hey, that's not true! But it was. Everytime I write for my thesis, i hv a mindset saying smthg2 must be supported by past study. It drives me nut everytime i finish searching for research articles, write a creative sentences, then search again to support the sentence. Don't get me started on past research examples!!!😫😫😫😫

[@tabitha6207]

I’m in high school and I take dual credit classes for college credit and I can confirm apa sucks

[@jennahilton8259]

Bruh. I'm a History Major and a Business Minor. I feel you! I have written papers in MLA, APA, and Turabian/Chicago Styles. Switching between the three styles is annoying. And the whole plagiarism and dry, boring writing style thing is too real. And yes there is a version of this class that exists for History Majors too. It's the Research and Writing class and it's basically Psych 311 but with the topic being History instead of Psychology. I got through it with either a B- or a C+, but I would never want to take that class again.

[@cricket.b2610]

Great video

[@thebestmuffin1862]

I suppressed your hypothesis :D

[@umitatsuky]

For anyone that has to make citation and that is watching this 2+ years after this vid came out... There are software that help you manage your citations :v After you write your citatacitaion this softwares insert the citations in the format you need (APA 6th and 7th edition, and the format of scientific magazines, etc), and at the same time they insert all of your references in the format you want, it basically writes your bibliography , you don't need to do anything manually. Additionally the software save your citatizacions. They will not do the paper for you, but they will certainly help. Some examples are Zotero and Mendeley :v

[@Herowebcomics]

Those tests are crazy! But it basically shows you what school philosophy is!

[@NerdPerson12]

young young tales: the odd1sout of the domics universe.

[@katherinemacleod8992]

This Is so relatable because my high school uses MLA for English projects but for our science fair (which is 10% of each of my science class’s final mark) we need to use APA and I hate it so much

[@ajdimicco7823]

I can relate, I took a health science research studies class and it was annoying as hell

[@luvpinas123]

Yay, I've been featured :3

[@YoungYongTales]

Yeah thanks for commenting on the last video haha

[@matejmijanovic1682]

You added in obelisk. Nice

[@nadiajgfchuydxvb9966]

All my papers for my upper division child development courses had to be in APA format. It was annoying, but I got used to it. Haha I found the manual useful sometimes, but yeah... I only really used it for the actual writing class made for writing research papers in the child development field.

[@Neveia]

I'm almost done with my bachelor's in psychology. I'm so used to APA that I was upset when another class used Turabian. Lol!!! I was so happy to finish that class so I could go back to APA. 🤣 Oh, and I hate that APA manual. It puts me to sleep. Hahaha!

[@fayeriie]

OH GAWD I FEEL YOU. I'm currently a Psychology major myself and am in my senior year. So.. *BAM* Thesis says hi. Our initial draft was given a recommendation about "USE APPROPRIATE WORDINGS, THIS IS AN ACADEMIC PAPER". Like it's so damn hard to write something that people will not enjoy reading and are just a bunch of restatements, using thesaurus.com, and make one sentence be as long as possible to make it sound "professional".