Plagiarism is using others' words, thoughts, insights, concepts, images, phrases, and so on without giving credit to the author(s). Along with these, submitting someone else's work as one's
own; failing to use a quotation in quotation marks; providing false information about the source of a quotation; changing the words of a sentence without changing the structure and giving no credit; copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of the work, whether you cite it or not (Alam: 2020); copying online sources in a paper without mentioning source; using your own published research or idea in another publication without giving the credit; and even translating from other languages are considered as plagiarism. According to the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), sequentially 6 words; or 7-11 words of a set of 30 words from a source are the criteria for detecting Plagiarism. The most used software for detecting Plagiarism is Turnitin, iThenticate, and PlagScan. There is some free software for testing Plagiarism like Dupli Checker; Copyleaks; PaperRater; Plagiarisma (Alam: 2020) and so on. To avoid plagiarism, take notes or highlight interesting information about your dissertation, key ideas, or research, and after reading and taking notes, write a summary in your own words (University of Nottingham, n.d.). Copy the quotes exactly word by word from the source and use quotes with the page numbers.
