Follow these four steps to ensure your paper is free from plagiarism:

• Keep track of the sources you consult in your research.
• Paraphrase or quote from your sources (and add your own ideas).
• Credit the original author in an in-text citation and reference list.
• Use a plagiarism checker before you submit.

Copying someone’s idea without citation And plagiarism policies generally agree. To avoid this mistake, make sure to cite where the idea came from. Then introduce your own thoughts and research, so that your whole assignment or paper isn’t just echoing already published ideas.

• Summarize. Take an idea and condense it by putting it in your own words.
• Quote. Take words or ideas from a source and integrate them directly in your writing.
• Paraphrase. Use the author’s general presentation of ideas but restate them in your own words.
• Use Turnitin.
• Use a citation generator.

As long as you avoid those three things you don’t commit plagiarism.

• Using someone else’s ideas without attribution.
• Using someone else’s words without attribution.
• Citing the source incorrectly.

First, plagiarism of ideas occurs when the writer presents the ideas of others as his/her own. Information, data, interpretations, and conclusions that come from a specific source must be attributed to the source even if the original language is not used.

We also expect our authors to exercise stringent care to avoid plagiarism.

• Don’t copy.
• Write in your own words.
• When in doubt, cite.
• Don’t recycle images, figures, tables or text from one of your own previously published papers without citing.
• Ask permission.

Answer: There is a lack of consensus or clear-cut-rules on what percentage of plagiarism is acceptable in a manuscript. Going by the convention, usually a text similarity below 15% is acceptable by the journals and a similarity of >25% is considered as high percentage of plagiarism.

10 Types of Plagiarism – Every Academic Writer Should Know

• 10 Example Plagiarism Types.
• “Clone” – Plagiarism. Cloning plagiarism is also called identical copying.
• “Remix” – Plagiarism.
• “Ctrl+C” – Plagiarism.
• “Hybrid” – Plagiarism.
• “Find-Replace” – Plagiarism.
• “Recycle” – Plagiarism.
• “Mashup” – Plagiarism.

The most common forms of student plagiarism are paraphrasing plagiarism and mosaic plagiarism. If the student paraphrases parts from another work or substitutes some words of the original content with synonymous terms and doesn’t mention the source, then it will be an instance of plagiarism.

Turnitin cannot identify incidents of plagiarism. Nor can it prove that a student has not plagiarized. It can only create Originality reports that show the degree of similarity between a submitted assignment and sources of content within the database.

If you think plagiarism is fine, morally speaking, here are five easy steps to avoid getting caught.

1. Add adjectives and adverbs.
2. Change the order of the words a bit.
3. Choose an obscure person to plagiarize.
4. Say it with an accent.
5. If you get caught deny, deny, deny.

Turnitin does not flag essays that include plagiarized ideas or concepts, nor can it detect paraphrasing that dramatically changes the wording of an original source while maintaining that source’s organization.