[Turnbull Zemi] Similarity reports

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Hi,

Unfortunately the "Document Viewer" link in line 2 of the page doesn't
work without my account and password.  It's probably normally not
useful to click on the lings, they'll just should you the original
text.

If your similarity report is over 20%, you need to take action to
bring it down.  Also, if any source contributes over 100 words
(English or Japanese), you should check for one or more segments
within the length of a page that together contain more than 25 words
from the same source.  In either case, such long segments of more than
25 words from one sourceneed to be completely rewritten.

You cannot just change some of the words to synonyms for two reasons.
First, the algorithm used by iThenticate will just skip over one or
two words that are different, and flag the segment anyway, reducing
the wowrd count by the substituted words.  Second, it is frequently
the case that authors publish basically the same text multiple times
(for example, a preprint on arXiv or a PDF on their personal home page
as well as the publised journal article), and there's a chance that
you will just get caught by a different version that either matches
your substitution accidentally, or it happens to be the version you
actually copied.

Changing the order of sentences, or long clauses within sentences, is
usually enough.  It is better, if it makes sense, to move sentences
and fragments to a different paragraph, or sometimes to delete them
entirely.

Steve