The sausage is plastic. The mushrooms are freeze-dried. It's hard to find the real thing these days as knowledge passes for understanding. Truth proves elusive as facts and figures pile up in huge mountains. Virtual truth is really just info-glut masquerading as wisdom.
Students sometimes learn to equate length with quality.
The more the better. Pile up the evidence, the sources and the quotations. Collect the thinking of others. Change one word in every sentence. Real world research involves a search for truth, some new insight, a solution to a problem or the basis for a decision.