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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6Surely if you wrote the paper you already know whether you plagiarised any of it?– avidSep 3, 2020 at 6:59
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@avid, some sentences need to be paraphrased.– user366312Sep 3, 2020 at 7:03
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2@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?– ChristianSep 3, 2020 at 7:07
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5@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.– Tom van der ZandenSep 3, 2020 at 7:19
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2Then 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.– ChristianSep 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. Sep 3, 2020 at 7:03
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1@NateEldredge You'd merely learn that widely used checkers don't work, but we know that already– user2768Sep 4, 2020 at 8:09