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As an author in order to avoid plagiarism, the best way is learning and compliance with the basic principles of good academic from your academic career’s starting. And as signaled by the University of Oxford’s website ‘avoiding plagiarism is not simply a matter of making sure your references are all correct, or changing enough words so the examiner will not notice your paraphrase; it is about deploying your academic skills to make your work as good as it can be’.
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OSI: the Overall Similarity Index represents the ‘percentage of similarity between a submission and information existing in the Crosscheck/iThenticate databases selected as search targets’ [minor: <25 %; middle: 25–35 %; major: >35 %]; SMSI: the Single Match Similarity Index represents the percentage of similarity from a single source [minor: <6 %; middle: 6–10 %; major:>10 %]
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Zhang, Y.(. (2016). Avoiding Plagiarism as an Author. In: Against Plagiarism. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24160-9_8
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