Purdue’s Graduate School requires that all theses and dissertations be reviewed using iThenticate. Office of Research Integrity.Īs a further precaution, final or near final drafts of manuscripts can be reviewed using software such as iThenticate, which identifies text in a document that is identical or nearly identical to text in the previously published literature. Guidance to help authors avoid plagiarism is available from Purdue’s Online Writing Lab, Purdue’s Research Compliance office, and the U.S.
Authors can avoid plagiarism by maintaining detailed records of their sources of information being careful to identify direct quotations of the words of others using quotation marks when not quoting directly, using proper paraphrasing technique and always citing the sources of quoted or paraphrased content.
