Would this be plagiarism?

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Would it still be considered plagiarism if I were to take everything off a website and just rewording your essay? These websites that I speak of are actually just presentations that other students did in my world history class.

Yes, unless you credit your sources adequately with thorough referencing and have an element of synthesis in your writing (using those sources to supplement your own point and create an original piece of work rather than rewording their work).

If you are in fact taking previous pieces of work from your peers and not reading any source material at all, as it sounds in your post, you don't deserve to pass at all.

Yes, if you're not giving credit to the presentations you used.

Any paper looks better if you credit sources.

Paradoxically, it actually makes it easier to produce a research paper if you credit as many sources as possible (though it might seem like it's difficult).

I think that is not a good idea to rewrite your essay. I would better recommend you to use your own ideas. In case you have some lack of them, brainstorm and use mind-mapping techniques. For proofreading purposes, you can contact Supreme essay service. They always help me a lot.

Essay's usually aren't as hard to write yourself as people make out. All you need to do is know what structure the examiner or audience is looking for. My EPQ essay needs a 1000 word introduction, in the 1st month of doing the intro I managed to just about squeeze up to 200 words, but it turns out the intro can include background information about the field which the essay is on (which would have been my 1st paragraph after the intro). In just about 3 hours of writing and reading I got together about 8 sources, of which I already got in pieces to credit three of them as research material, and 800 words.


Now, a little tip, which everyone else seems to go totally against. Try to start your research with Wikipedia, but don't use it to get the final information and do not mention Wikipedia in your essay. Wikipedia can often be a brilliant source to get a rough outline of your topic, you can then use information such as names, experiments or events you learn about from Wikipedia as your key search terms on google, to then find papers and more credible sources to use in your essay. Google also has a nice feature for you. You can search for scholarly papers on Google, and any scholarly paper is usually a really good source.

Obviously, adjust that little method of research to fit your essay better. Each essay is slightly different, so needs a slightly different approach.

Lol! Yes.

I write everything in common language. Like I'm talking to myself. Then I go back and rewrite each sentence so it sounds "professional" and I find a citation.

Research paper example: "I like that show, 'Vikings,' especially the character Bjorn, who is the son of Ragnar Lothbrok. I wonder how historically accurate his storyline is?"

That would turn into:

"Bjorn Ironside, son of Ragnar Lothbrok, is a character in the History Channel's TV show, 'Vikings' (citation pointing at http://www.history.com/shows/vikings). But how accurate is the portrayal?" Then I would just look up different facts about the real Bjorn Ironside and put all that in.