Plagiarism Check Instructions

Types of Plagiarism
 Copy and Paste Plagiarism – It is an academic offense! If you take a sentence or
phrase intact from a source, you must use quotation marks and reference the source.

 Word Switch - If you take a sentence from a source and change around a few words,
it is still plagiarism! Think about putting some parts of the phrase in quotation marks
and referencing the source. You can copy no more than 3 words in a row, including
articles.

 Idea Plagiarism - If the author of the article expresses a creative idea or suggests a
solution to a problem, the idea must be clearly attributed to the author.

PLAGIARISM

 If more than 10-15% of the paper consists of cited sentences it is to be considered

as plagiarized

 A sentence or a phrase is considered to be plagiarized in the following cases:

Direct Copy and Paste is Used

1.      Therefore, a good business strategy must fully utilize the inimitable assets of people
through their knowledge, skills and capabilities.

Source Match: http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Critically-Discuss-Various-Existing-Models-
Linking/136737

Consequently, any good business strategy must fully utilize the inimitable assets of people
through their knowledge, skills and abilities

2.      Gastric Inhibitory Peptide is produced in the digestive tract in response to a meal in the
system and inhibits appetite.

Source Match:  http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/digestive_system.html

Peptide YY is produced in the digestive tract in response to a meal in the system and inhibits
appetite

3.      Our reservations channels now bring in $7.6 billion of room revenues and our Priority
Club Rewards members contribute $5.9 billion.
Source Match: http://www.ihgplc.com/files/reports/arv2008/index.asp?pageid=14

Our reservations channels now bring in $7.6 billion of room revenues and our Priority Club
Rewards members contribute $5.9 billion

4.      Management contract fees are generally a percentage of hotel revenue and may have an
additional incentive fee linked to profitability or cash flow Cash Flow: $91m of cash was
generated from operating activities in the six months to 30 June and $12m of cash was
generated from disposals.

Source Match: http://www.ihgplc.com/index.asp?PageID=116&NewsID=2330

Cash flow & net debt $91m of cash was generated from operating activities in the six months
to 30 June and $12m of cash was generated from disposals

Improperly Cited Ideas Are Used

1.      The airlines are continually competing against each other in terms of prices, technology,
in-flight entertainment, customer services and many more areas.  The research findings reveal
that most clients work through brand association, personality, attitude, and image to shape a
consumer-brand relationship (Ingham, 1992).

Source Match: http://www.freeonlineresearchpapers.com/airline-strategic-management

The airlines are continually competing against each other in terms of prices, technology, in-
flight entertainment, customer services and many more areas

2.      They include; Bio feedback electronic device are used to provide information to patients
about biological function in their body for example heart rate, blood pressure and muscle
activity. (Porter, Kaplan, Homeier, 2005).

Source Match: http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec22/ch330/ch330c.html

Biofeedback: For this technique, electronic devices are used to provide information to patients
about biologic functions (eg, heart rate, BP, muscle activity)

3.      They become absorbed into the images presented by the hypnotherapist and are
relatively unaware of their surroundings but not unconscious it is used to treat pain syndrome
and conversion disorders (Porter, Kaplan, Homeier, 2005).

Source Match:  http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec22/ch330/ch330c.html

They become absorbed in the images presented by the hypnotherapist and are relatively
unaware, but not entirely unconscious, of their surroundings and the experiences they are
undergoing

Bad Paraphrasing is Used

 1.      The competition becomes high when there are many players of similar size and
strategies in the market and when the barriers for exit are also very high.

Source Match: http://www.themanager.org/Models/p5f.htm

Competition between existing players is likely to be high when There are many players of
about the same size, Players have similar strategies There is not much differentiation between
players and their products, hence, there is much price competition Low market growth rates
(growth of a particular company is possible only at the expense of a competitor), Barriers for
exit are high (e.g. expensive and highly specialized equipment)

2.      Streams will be distributed between servers of a distribution network whereby each

server feeds different networks.

Source Match:  http://www.mediasmartserver.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4725

Streams can also be distributed between servers as part of a distribution network where each
server ultimately feeds a different network/audience

3.      It is the using of the most efficient strategy to deliver the messages over each link of
network only once; then creating copies to different destination.

Source Match:  http://www.emc-corp.net/emc-faq.htm

Multicast is the delivery of information to a group of destinations simultaneously using the

most efficient strategy to deliver the messages over each link of the network only once,
creating copies only when the links to the destinations split

4.      It does not require a source sending group to know about the receiver of the group.

Source Match: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Multicast

IP Multicast does not require a source sending to a given group to know about the receivers of
the group

4 words Match is Indicated

1. It should be added that to narrow a wide range of potential diagnoses

applicable to the patient's case, it is necessary to consider many diagnostic
directions prior to refining them to arrive at a working diagnosis

Source Match: https://www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/18324511

An extensive list of potential diagnoses applicable to the patient's case

NOT PLAGIARISM
  A sentence or a phrase is not considered to be plagiarized in the following cases:

An Abbreviation is Used

1.      Pest analysis involves political, economical, social and technological aspects.

Source Match:  http://www.oppapers.com/subjects/macro-environment-page2.html

PEST stands for Political, Economic, Social and Technological  

2.      This 1975 statute witnessed a reauthorization a number of times so that by 1990, it had
come to be regarded as IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Source Match:  http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_discussion.html

In 1990, it was renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

2 or 3 words Match is Indicated

1.     Interaction between Hormones and Behavior.

Source Match:  http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/ViewPage.aspx?pageId=74

Hormones and Behavior

2.      All doves and pigeons belong to this order

Source Match:  http://virtualology.com/classaves/columbiformes.com/

doves and pigeons

3.      But they have no digestion problem.

Source Match:  http://www.hardysvitamins.com/information.php?info_id=15

Digestive problems

A General Phrase is Used

1.     Background Strategic planning is an important aspect in the process of marketing.

Source Match:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_analysis

This is an important aspect of business planning  

2.      Structured questionnaires will be used to collect data.

Source match: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Patients+with+coronary+artery+disease--
maintaining+planned+lifestyle...-a0189784879

DATA COLLECTION A survey using a questionnaire was used to collect the data

3.      In every game every player faces a choice.

Source match:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-theory/

You (Player I) now face a choice between outcomes (2,2) and (0,4)

4.      This is where the major digestion takes place.

Source Match:  http://www.answers.com/topic/digestion

The major part of digestion takes place in the small intestine

Some Term or Term Explanation is Used

1.      What is Gender Identity

Source Match:  http://www.leaderu.com/jhs/rekers.html

Gender identity problems

2.      Some examples of such risk management strategies are risk committees, planning and
forecasting, models, limits and hedging policies.

Source Match:
http://www.bankofamerica.com/annualreport/2004/backmatter/mda/mda_managingrisk.cfm

Examples of these methods include planning and forecasting, risk committees and forums,
limits, models, and hedging strategies

3.      Swot analysis.

Source Match:
http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/crosscuttings/swot_analysis.html

Why SWOT Analysis

4.      Proteins contain hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen.

Source Match:  http://www.answers.com/topic/amino-acid

Amino acids are made up of hydrogen , carbon , oxygen , and nitrogen  

5.      The essential minerals are sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus,
sulphur and chlorine.

Source Match:
http://keywen.com/en/Health/Nutrition/Nutrients_in_Foods/Vitamins_and_Minerals/
Potassium

SODIUM The major minerals are: sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium,
sulfur and chlorine

Some Names or Titles are Used

1.      Risk Management Strategies of Bank of America.

Source Match:  http://ustrust.bankofamerica.com/

Bank of America, N

2.      Manhattan Day School The philosophical foundation of Manhattan Day School is Torah.

Source Match:  http://mdsweb.org/general.html

Manhattan Day School is an Orthodox Yeshiva with Torah as the foundation of our
philosophy

Properly Cited Quotations are Used

1.      As it is emphasized by Crosby, (1972),  “The Comanche emerged as a distinct tribe

around 1700, breaking away from the Shoshone in order to adopt a new nomadic lifestyle
made possible only by the horse”  ( p. 184):

Source Match: http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exchange/culture.html

The horse transformed Indian societies, and even created new Indian nations: The Comanche
emerged as a distinct tribe around 1700, breaking away from the Shoshone in order to adopt a
new nomadic lifestyle made possible only by the horse

2.      “Cancer cells are characterized by three properties: (1) diminished or unrestrained

control of growth; (2) invasion of local tissues; and (3) spread, or metastasis to other parts of
the body” (Guyton & Hall 2000, p.81).

Source Match: http://ivythesis.typepad.com/term_paper_topics/2009/07/nursing-cancer-
research-1.html
Cancer cells are characterized by three properties: (1) diminished or unrestrained control of
growth; (2) invasion of local tissues; and (3) spread, or metastasis to other parts of the body