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My graduate school doesn't offer TurnIt facility.

All tools available online charge money.

How can a I check plagiarism free of cost before submitting my research paper ?

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    Surely if you wrote the paper you already know whether you plagiarised any of it?
    – avid
    Sep 3, 2020 at 6:59
  • @avid, some sentences need to be paraphrased.
    – user366312
    Sep 3, 2020 at 7:03
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    @user366312 care to elaborate? Do you mean you wrote some sentences that you think are to similar to sentences in published papers? Or do you mean you copied them and want to check whether you can get them past some software?
    – Christian
    Sep 3, 2020 at 7:07
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    @user366312 There is no need to paraphrase. If you need to copy a sentence from another paper, you need to do so with a citation and a very clear indication that it is copied (e.g., quotation marks and italic fonts). Hiding the copying by paraphrasing is plagiarism too. If the tool is detecting the sentences as similar by coincidence then it is not a problem. Nobody with a clean conscience would need to check their paper for plagiarism. Sep 3, 2020 at 7:19
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    Then I do not see a problem. If you wrote them yourself they are probably something like "standard sentences". I fully agree with @TomvanderZanden - if you took them from another paper you have to cite them anyway.
    – Christian
    Sep 3, 2020 at 7:53

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Ask yourself a simple question: Did you plagiarise?

Assuming the answer is no, there's no need to check whether you plagiarised.

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  • Some online tools are detecting some sentences which need to be paraphrased.
    – user366312
    Sep 3, 2020 at 7:03
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    @user366312 Did you plagiarise?
    – user2768
    Sep 3, 2020 at 7:09
  • no. absolutely not.
    – user366312
    Sep 3, 2020 at 7:38
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    You have your answer, you should submit
    – user2768
    Sep 3, 2020 at 7:46
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    @NateEldredge You'd merely learn that widely used checkers don't work, but we know that already
    – user2768
    Sep 4, 2020 at 8:09

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