Five Simple Rules to Avoid Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a form of scientific misconduct defined as authoring ideas or words produced by someone else or from one’s own previous publications and attempting to publish such work without properly citing the original author and publication.

Plagiarism is easy for writers to avoid by simply not copying any printed sources and by writing original text in one’s own words, and, if paraphrasing, citing the source.

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