How To Reduce Plagiarism Percentage

How can I decrease my plagiarism percentage when writing a new manuscript?

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Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani

Rephrase the sentence and check the turnitin or Urkund Palagrisme

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The World Islamic Science and Education University

During writing my articles, I have my own rule that says: If you are using your own words, there should be no plagiarism issue. If I were you, I prefer to use my own words by paraphrasing the sentences in the document.

Another important related issue, be careful if you have other co-authors with you. I only trust my own words.

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Botanical Survey of India

Cite the source of the work which is not yours

What are the safe and good tools for plagiarism checking?

Please take a look at this useful RG link.

What are the safe and good tools for plagiarism checking?

Kindly go through the following RG discussion threads.

Dear, Mohammed ,,

You can decrease the plagiarism percentage when you write a new manuscript by depending on your own expression and avoiding copy/paste from other articles.

With best wishes.

National Institute of Technology Raipur

You can decrease your plagiarism percentage in your manuscript through a complete understanding of the information gathered in literature and furnishing evidence building your MS proper. Mohammed I. Rushdi

Understand the text then write on your own words, summarizer or rephrase. In all cases you have to write the source.

Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University

Simply, try to depend on your own writing style after well reading of your references. In order to check plagiarism ratio in your manuscript, you may visit this link:

Regards and good luck my friend,

Emad

Write what you think. Fewer quotes, only the most necessary, and format these correctly, even own, if these published already.

Kazan Innovative University named after V.G.Timiryasov (IEML)

When using other people's thoughts, it is better to quote them in quotation marks indicating the source of the citation.

Middle Technical University

There are some free websites that can be used in order to avoid the problem of plagiarism, and the detection of text transmitted text, such as https://plagiarism.net where the site determines the percentage of citation, and through which the researcher begins to modify what was written to match With scientific and ethical standards, the researcher must have a large toll of language synonyms, Also the best way to avoid plagiarism is to read information from sources and rewrite without reference. Although this method may require considerable time and effort, its success rate is 100%.

Kuban State Agricultural University

Do not use keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V

College of Medicine, Al-Iraqia University

I totally agree with all my colleagues comments, you can decrease your plagiarism percentage, by understanding your text then by write on your own words

College of Medicine, Al-Iraqia University

Thanks a lot dear Arvind Singh, for your sharing these informative links

Université 20 août 1955-Skikda

Dear All

To avoid as possible the plagiarism , try your best to write the text using your own still . Before submitting the paper , check using the most and usefull softwar: iThenticate plagiarism checker software . The similarity percentage must be as less as possible (10 to 15%) .

best my friends

We can avoid plagiarism in writing papers or books by depending on our own style in writing and avoiding copy/paste from other articles.

Agricultural University of Athens Greece

All relevant responses add value to the discussion thread. Thus, I recommend them.

The Institution of Engineers (India)

Very useful and popular question - Please go thru any standard online plagirism

checker from google .

Arab Atomic Energy Agency (AAEA)

By following the scientific writing and ethic values

Techno-Logos (Educatis.CH: Sharing knowledge among professionals.

By applying and developing your own creative writing style, after collecting and studying the basic data and facts for your work.

Madan Bhandari Memorial Academy Nepal and Madan Bhandari Technological University

Simply read once and start writing without remembering in another paper

Do not be too lazy to write about the same thing every time again, and not copy the paragraphs from your previous publications with the mouse. This ensures a fresh perception of the material and eliminates self-plagiarism.

Manipal Academy of Higher Education

1. Use your own ideas

2, where ever you using others reference, please mention in and give superscript. Likewise you can minimize your Plagiarism issues.

Dr Kamath Madhusudhana

The following are the first standards to reduce similarity or plagiarism when you are writing a manuscript.

1. Avoid copy and paste job.

2. Read the literature related to your manuscript topic, mix all-important points from your read in your brain, and start to write your own creative sentences scientifically.

3. Finally, amend the sentences several times after reading three or more times.

Interesting and important query with several valuable comments , PDF and links provided by our RG colleagues

Al-Mustansiriya University

Through honesty by writing information and data and honesty documentation of sources and references and the diversity of studies on various topics, on the other hand, on the other hand try to publish research and studies in a manner that is difficult to reproduce, such as the use of the method of file conservation PDF

My greetings

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur

Excellent question.But most of the answer is don't copy and paste. This is most of the time correct but not always..Problem is based on the tools used at the journal side.

If I am expert in particular area two or few times I can write fresh sentence..after that if I want to write what is the options...then I have to use my old content..then it becomes text cycling as part of self plagiarism..

Best is which ever method you do, you try to rephrase to the maximum...

Check with free online software or any paid software...look similarity index...change the line...when it is 0 percent go and submit..

In spite of all these the journal site will.say 17 percent similarity etc...they show sentence and change accordingly the sentence...

This will always the process...

Qarshi Industries (Pvt.) Limited

Dear Sir! Write your thinking in own words, that will help decrease in plagiarism and also check similarity index when you satisfy after proof read at the end.

You can check it by plagiarism checker softwares.

Government College of Engineering Keonjhar under Biju Patnaik University of Technology Odisha

Read, try to understand and write your own language.

Finally, you may take the help of some tools.....

Mohammed V University of Rabat

All these answers and suggestions are commendable. If you have a new idea, don't worry: words and phrases will come on their own without plagiarism.

Don't copy and paste.

You have to read from many articles and then summarize with your own way.

Dear Sir! Write your thinking just yourself, that will help decrease in plagiarism and also check the similarity index by plagiarism checker software.

Arab Atomic Energy Agency (AAEA)

The key factor is minimizing the similarity below 20%

The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro

Excellent submissions. I think this discussion is valuable, especially for upcoming researchers.

The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro

Try to write some of your content in your own word and if you use any material always make sure you cite the source even if you rephrase it.

Note: sometimes, if you copy a recently published articles, the plagiarism software may not detect it as a copied cotent, don't be deceived always reference your source of information either plagiarism software detect it or not.

Don't copy and paste, read and understand then write in your own word. You can also check by plagiarism software.

Institute of Space Technology Islamabad

You can use some synonyms for the important words

Qarshi Industries (Pvt.) Limited

Well, I have read all comments, one thing is noticed that " Try to write in own words" but sometimes own words also matches with synonyms and other words which are already published.

Is there any software generation for new words? Please share if any!

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

Paraphrase the paragraph with your own style

Paraphrasing, citation and using your own words and ideas are the key factors to avoid plagiarism.

Dear Mohammed I. Rushdi

free softwares are not giving accurate similarity index ..if you want to publish your article in any good journal scopus/scie then use turnitin/ Ithenticate as both are best the option the description of popular similarity checking softwares are given below.

Urkund is a web-based application that conducts server-side plagiarism detection. The solution to detect plagiarism is integrated and automated. This is a paid service that utilizes a standard email program to upload documentation and display information. This program handles 300 separate types of submissions and checks all accessible online sources. The educational sources of documents are given more priority while searching.UGC provides this software to universities of india for similarity checking.

Ithenticate for any text document is an effective tool for web-based plagiarism detection. Installation on a client computer is not necessary. Input materials are comparable with the references accessible on the site in this case. Many well-known journal publishers utilize this well-known method. It is a professional fast plagiarism checker that is easy to use. This is meant for institutional use instead of personal use, but essentially this offers a restricting feature for consumers of the specific identification of plagiarism, such as students of master and doctoral education. this allows them to check a document of up to 25,000 words.

Turnitin is a successful web-based tool. Detection and reporting is done remotely in this method. 15,000 universities and 30 Million students have now approved Turnitin because of its user-friendly design, broad repository help, robust plagiarism tests and structured report production. It can be seen as one of the best plagiarism checker

Arun kumar sharma

Altering the sentence keeping the meaning same--basically this plagiarism software is a bogus thing. It will catch even the names of your country and city

You should follow all aspects of "Research Ethics and Academic Integrity" in writing a new manuscript. However can use a number of plagiarism checkers to know your percentage of plagiarism and should edit suitably.

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Yes, I agree with Thiru Selvan. When I am writing a manuscript for a new research article, I prepare it accordingly, incorporating in it all the research information that I have gathered. Then I check for plagiarism and edit it as required.

The World Islamic Science and Education University

Another important related issue, be careful if you have other co-authors with you. I only trust my own words.

Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute,Kano

Read all article very well. Use your own words and Paraphrase were necessary. But still use quotation were definition cannot be wear out from the original author-cited

During preparation of a manuscript writing, description, explanation, clarification and justification of the research findings, all should be written in ones own words and style, instead of citing from other author's articles.

The British University in Egypt

To do so, read at least five papers in the same area and use your own words, this is the rightful and the only way.

I agree with Munira Nasiruddin.

Ministry of Science and Technology, Iraq

I agree with Dr Ibrahim Muhammad Abdul

u can paraphrase the text it will help you

Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi

I agree with Munira Nasiruddin.

Al-Mustansiriya University

the best way is paraphrasing the text.

Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology

You may follow the below steps to keep your manuscript plagiarism free while writing:

1- Understanding the papers: This step is really necessary. First, you need to completely read, understand and absorb the whole/portion of the papers that you wish to include in your manuscript. Failure to this step can lead you to have insufficient knowledge before writing.

2- Paraphrasing/Rephrasing: Now the next step is to rephrase/paraphrase the given portion of the paper that you wish to include. In order to perform this step, you need to have a good grip on grammar, synonyms, and vocabulary of the related technical terms. To improve grammar and technical terms, you can read as many relevant articles as possible, whereas you can use Collin's Thesaurus to look for synonyms. If you are using Microsoft Word, you can simply right-click on a word and see its synonym as well.

3- Use Turnitin to check plagiarism: Almost all universities provide a free Turnitin account for the faculty. I was also provided, hence I check my paper's plagiarism via Turnitin. After you have checked plagiarism, you can then rephrase/paraphrase the highlighted text showing the similarity.

I hope it helps.

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