Q: How should I revise my paper so that it clears plagiarism check at the journal end?
My paper was rejected by a SCI journal because the plagiarism check percentage was 19%. I have revised the paper as much as possible. How should I revise it further so that I can clear the journal's plagiarism check? Thank you!
I understand your problem. It can sometimes be very difficult for a non-native speaker of English to rephrase English text in his or her own words. Since you have revised the paper further after the plagiarism check, the percentage of plagiarized content would surely have gone down. However, if you are still not confident of this, you could take the help of a plagiarism check service or some academic writing tools or software that offer plagiarism check. There are several such options available online, for istance, iThenticate, PlagTracker, Viper, etc. Some sites even offer free plagiarism check, which might help you find out if your paper still has a substantial amount of plagiarized content. If you feel that the percentage is still high, you would need to revise your paper once again.
When revising your paper, remember the following:
- Always cite the source when you are borrowing a concept or an idea from another paper, even if you have summarized it in your own words.
- If you are using the same words as that of the source material, always use quotation marks.
- Even if you are using a concept or idea from one of your own previously published papers, you need to cite the source; else, this will be considered as self-plagiarism.
Finally, if possible, request a colleague or a friend who is a native speaker of English to help you with rephrasing. Alternatively, you could consider taking professional help. Editage also has a plagiarism check service.
You might also be interested in knowing How much do journal editors rely on plagiarism detection software?
Achievement Standard: Personal Response
Name: Olivia KIng
Text Type: Fable, Historical Fiction, Children's literature, Postmodern literature
Title: The boy in the striped pyjamas
Author: John Boyne
Date: 30 september 2018
Summary:
Seen through the eyes of an eight year old boy, sheilded from the reality of WWll, bruno is growing up in Berlin, but moves to Auschwitz during World War II, sets out to explore the place around him. The novel also involves the horrific part of history; the holocaust.The story starts with eight-year-old Bruno (Butterfield) annoyed to discover his father has been given a new posting, to a house in the country. He misses his friends until he spots what he believes is a farm through the woods in the backyard. But it's an odd farm, the people all wear those striped pyjamas. The cover of the book gave away little of the plot, allowing the reader to discover just what it was about while they were reading it. For instance, I don't think it's ever directly mentioned that the book is set in World War II and that the father of central character Bruno is a Nazi.
Topic: For my response I am going to write about…
In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Bruno and Shmuel exhibit a childlike innocence, Bruno is largely ignorant of the horrors of the Holocaust. The theme of friendship is apparent in the boys devotion to one another despite their different backgrounds and circumstances.
The book is written in third person although it seems to be focused and seen through the eyes of Bruno, which is why the interaction and different relationships are so simple to gauge and understand. The relationship between a sibling is a powerful thing, which usually falls into the category of fighting and arguing, but Bruno and Gretel see that once their guard is down they can see one another perspective on what is happening.
Explanation: (give a general overview of how the topic you are writing about is shown)
Key events that occured in the novel is Bruno shows Gretel the kids on the other side of the fence from his window, Gretel panics. I think this was included to show the comparison between bruno’s age and Greta’s age. Bruno has a completely different take on the situation and personally I think because he isn't as practiced as Greta is because of his curiosity and newness towards the “farm”. The message of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is that we are all more alike than we are different. The innocent friendship of the Jewish boy Shmuel and the Nazi's son Bruno, set against the horrific backdrop of the Holocaust, highlights the fact that divisions between people are arbitrary. This book also comments on people's ability to rationalize evil actions committed against "other" people. Bruno's family rationalizes their own participation in the Nazi regime they are responsible for countless deaths but only feel the true atrocity of the gas chambers when their own son is killed by them. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas presents very powerfully the reality and inhumanity of evil. It reminds us that evil does not always look evil, or how we expect evil to look; unlike Voldemort in Harry Potter, it does not come with a sinister snake-like face, a hissing voice and malevolent red eyes. Evil comes through ordinary people who look and sound like you or me indeed, who are like you or me. It is not primarily ‘out there’ but ‘in here’; with us and among us and in us.
That’s not to say that Evil does not have a wider, even a supernatural, aspect. The characters in the film are clearly caught up in an evil which is far bigger than themselves. Nonetheless, it is always the people themselves who make the evil happen; it is the willing participation and involvement of ordinary humans which allows evil to prevail.
The film shows how frighteningly easy it is for even normal and ‘good’ people, people just like us to get involved in or become complicit in terrible evil, colluding with brutality and oppression out of prejudice, ignorance or fear. It shows how terribly easy it is also to make excuses for what you’re doing, what you’re involved with, and to ignore the terrible realities and consequences; even deceiving your own conscience to the extent of persuading yourself that evil is good and vice versa. And this applies to Christians as much as anyone else.
Specific Examples:
“But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.” This example is very indecisive, and simple but also strong and cut straight to point.
“What happened then was both unexpected and extremely unpleasant. Lieutenant Kotler grew very angry with Pavel and no one not Bruno, not Gretl, not Mother and not even Father stepped in to stop him doing what he did next, even though none of them could watch. Even though it made Bruno cry and Gretel grow pale."
This is a description of one of the only acts of violence Bruno witnesses during the story. Lieutenant Kotler, the young soldier whom Bruno has always disliked, attacks Pavel for spilling a bottle of wine into his lap as he tries to refill his glass. Boyne purposely leaves out the details of the violent act, allowing it to represent the large-scale violence of the Holocaust itself and, by extension, of any genocide. In this interaction, Bruno and his family represent bystanders who are disgusted and disturbed by the violence but nevertheless do nothing to interfere with it or stop it.
"I'm thirteen years old, for heaven's sake! I can't afford to act like a child even if you can."
This is Gretel's response to Bruno when he asks her if she has her own imaginary friend. He has just lied to her about Shmuel, having accidentally let the boy's name slip. Despite Gretel's insistence that she is too mature to act like a child, when she leaves his room, Bruno hears her talking to her dolls. This tension between her perception of herself as a teenager versus her childlike behavior characterizes Gretel as representative of her peer group in Nazi-occupied Germany. If her family had stayed in Berlin, she ostensibly would have been a member of the Hitler Youth. This also reflects back to the specific examples and explanation due to “handling situations.”
"I'm very sorry, Shmuel...I can't believe I didn't tell him the truth. I've never let a friend down like that before. Shmuel, I'm ashamed of myself."
This is Bruno's apology to Shmuel after he fails to speak up for his friend to Lieutenant Kotler. It is implied to the reader that his inaction resulted in physical harm to Shmuel, and here is compelled to take responsibility for the pain he has caused. This moment sets him apart from Father and the other Nazis, who are causing pain on a much larger scale but do not take responsibility for it.
"Those people... well, they're not people at all, Bruno.”
When Bruno asks Father about the Jews he has seen living on the other side of the fence, Father urges him not to worry about them or try to understand them. In this quotation, he offers the explanation for how the Nazis were able to carry out such atrocities against the Jews: they convinced themselves that they were not people, and therefore were not entitled to basic human rights or even to life.
Analysis:What my examples show: (could include your reaction or what you think the general reader’s/ audience’s reaction might be) What did you learn from this?
Bruno comes home to find his family is moving, once settled into “Out With”,Bruno realises they’ll be living there for the “foreseeable future.” Bruno looks out his window and people outside wearing striped pyjamas and caps. Bruno notices how they’re only boys,mean or elderly men: no girls or woman. Bruno meets shmuel from the other side of the fence, they become good friends. Falling action, Bruno is forbidden to go anywhere near the fence, Bruno help shmuel find his papa. Both boys die in gas chambers. Resolution, gretel and their mum go back to berlin, heartbroken after Bruno's disappearance. Bruno's father is sitting where bruno was last, and he comes to realise he has gassed his own son. What makes The Boy in the Striped Pajamas so effective is that rather than examining the big picture of the Holocaust and its atrocities, the novel instead focuses on individual relationships and gives readers an intimate portrait of two innocent boys seeking the same thing: friendship. Readers are cautioned, however, that even though the novel is about two nine-year-old boys, the novel is most definitely not geared toward this age group. The novel's devastating conclusion is not only beyond children's ability to comprehend but also in defiance of their worldview.
Links Between Text and Self:
How/ why I can relate to this OR how a particular audience might be able to relate to it (eg: teenagers, parents, the elderly etc.)
This book relates to young teens, because it was directed towards young teens because the holocaust was written from a child's standpoint. The author made Bruno and Shmuel very similar they are both nine years old, and are both brought to a place against their will. Yet they are so different because Shumel is a Jew who is treated inhumanely by the Germans, and Bruno lives a life of luxury. Yet, throughout their friendship, neither of them feels that they are different from one another. When Bruno puts on the striped pajamas, Shmuel recognizes that “If it wasn’t for the fact that Bruno was nowhere near as skinny as the boys on his side of the fence, and not quite so pale either, it would have been difficult to tell them apart. It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really." This is the pivotal moment in which Shmuel and the readers realize that we are all the same. I can relate to the point of being taken against your will, although under different circumstances. I moved town and schools although we have modern technology to stay connected to back home unlike back in
Links between the Text and The Wider World: (could include universal ideas)
Bruno realises that his father is an important man, and feels proud that other Germans look up to him. But in reality his father is overseeing the genocide of Jews at Auschwitz. The Holocaust has given rise to countless stories, both true and fictional. It has been the backdrop to tales of tragedy, of evil and of heroism. The Holocaust definition is “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.” and was a real event in our history and one that was understated as such by “ The boy and the striped pyjamas.
This text was worth reading because…
A lot of consideration was put into this novels appropriateness for children, it was thought parents might have to explain the Holocaust. The Holocaust was told from a child's standpoint.
Firstly, almost all fiction, except sci-fi and fantasy, has to use real locations and settings, either contemporary or historical. To criticise Slumdog Millionaire for not being true, though it uses the real setting of India’s slums and sectarian violence, or The Shawshank Redemption for not being representative of a real American prison, would miss the point of the stories they are telling.
Secondly, in not trying to tell a historically true story, the author or screenwriter is freed up to tell a story that’s true in other, perhaps deeper, ways. It’s never possible to convey the full truth of actual events; everyone involved will have different memories and perspectives, and all versions will be necessarily partial and partisan. But in using a broadly historical setting to tell a fictional tale, it becomes possible to tell deeper truths than the mere reporting of facts and events, truths about the human condition, about human relationships and emotions, about (in this case) human responses to suffering and evil and brutality.
Of course, it’s still important to get the historical details broadly correct Perhaps The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas does present a somewhat skewed and partial view.
_
Achievement Standard: Personal Response
Name: Olivia KIng
Text Type: Fable, Historical Fiction, Children's literature, Postmodern literature
Title: The boy in the striped pyjamas
Author: John Boyne
Date: 30 september 2018
Summary:
Seen through the eyes of an eight year old boy, sheilded from the reality of WWll, bruno is growing up in Berlin, but moves to Auschwitz during World War II, sets out to explore the place around him. The novel also involves the horrific part of history; the holocaust.The story starts with eight-year-old Bruno (Butterfield) annoyed to discover his father has been given a new posting, to a house in the country. He misses his friends until he spots what he believes is a farm through the woods in the backyard. But it's an odd farm, the people all wear those striped pyjamas. The cover of the book gave away little of the plot, allowing the reader to discover just what it was about while they were reading it. For instance, I don't think it's ever directly mentioned that the book is set in World War II and that the father of central character Bruno is a Nazi.
Topic: For my response I am going to write about…
In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Bruno and Shmuel exhibit a childlike innocence, Bruno is largely ignorant of the horrors of the Holocaust. The theme of friendship is apparent in the boys devotion to one another despite their different backgrounds and circumstances.
The book is written in third person although it seems to be focused and seen through the eyes of Bruno, which is why the interaction and different relationships are so simple to gauge and understand. The relationship between a sibling is a powerful thing, which usually falls into the category of fighting and arguing, but Bruno and Gretel see that once their guard is down they can see one another perspective on what is happening.
Explanation: (give a general overview of how the topic you are writing about is shown)
Key events that occured in the novel is Bruno shows Gretel the kids on the other side of the fence from his window, Gretel panics. I think this was included to show the comparison between bruno’s age and Greta’s age. Bruno has a completely different take on the situation and personally I think because he isn't as practiced as Greta is because of his curiosity and newness towards the “farm”. The message of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is that we are all more alike than we are different. The innocent friendship of the Jewish boy Shmuel and the Nazi's son Bruno, set against the horrific backdrop of the Holocaust, highlights the fact that divisions between people are arbitrary. This book also comments on people's ability to rationalize evil actions committed against "other" people. Bruno's family rationalizes their own participation in the Nazi regime they are responsible for countless deaths but only feel the true atrocity of the gas chambers when their own son is killed by them. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas presents very powerfully the reality and inhumanity of evil. It reminds us that evil does not always look evil, or how we expect evil to look; unlike Voldemort in Harry Potter, it does not come with a sinister snake-like face, a hissing voice and malevolent red eyes. Evil comes through ordinary people who look and sound like you or me indeed, who are like you or me. It is not primarily ‘out there’ but ‘in here’; with us and among us and in us.
That’s not to say that Evil does not have a wider, even a supernatural, aspect. The characters in the film are clearly caught up in an evil which is far bigger than themselves. Nonetheless, it is always the people themselves who make the evil happen; it is the willing participation and involvement of ordinary humans which allows evil to prevail.
The film shows how frighteningly easy it is for even normal and ‘good’ people, people just like us to get involved in or become complicit in terrible evil, colluding with brutality and oppression out of prejudice, ignorance or fear. It shows how terribly easy it is also to make excuses for what you’re doing, what you’re involved with, and to ignore the terrible realities and consequences; even deceiving your own conscience to the extent of persuading yourself that evil is good and vice versa. And this applies to Christians as much as anyone else.
Specific Examples:
“But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.” This example is very indecisive, and simple but also strong and cut straight to point.
“What happened then was both unexpected and extremely unpleasant. Lieutenant Kotler grew very angry with Pavel and no one not Bruno, not Gretl, not Mother and not even Father stepped in to stop him doing what he did next, even though none of them could watch. Even though it made Bruno cry and Gretel grow pale."
This is a description of one of the only acts of violence Bruno witnesses during the story. Lieutenant Kotler, the young soldier whom Bruno has always disliked, attacks Pavel for spilling a bottle of wine into his lap as he tries to refill his glass. Boyne purposely leaves out the details of the violent act, allowing it to represent the large-scale violence of the Holocaust itself and, by extension, of any genocide. In this interaction, Bruno and his family represent bystanders who are disgusted and disturbed by the violence but nevertheless do nothing to interfere with it or stop it.
"I'm thirteen years old, for heaven's sake! I can't afford to act like a child even if you can."
This is Gretel's response to Bruno when he asks her if she has her own imaginary friend. He has just lied to her about Shmuel, having accidentally let the boy's name slip. Despite Gretel's insistence that she is too mature to act like a child, when she leaves his room, Bruno hears her talking to her dolls. This tension between her perception of herself as a teenager versus her childlike behavior characterizes Gretel as representative of her peer group in Nazi-occupied Germany. If her family had stayed in Berlin, she ostensibly would have been a member of the Hitler Youth. This also reflects back to the specific examples and explanation due to “handling situations.”
"I'm very sorry, Shmuel...I can't believe I didn't tell him the truth. I've never let a friend down like that before. Shmuel, I'm ashamed of myself."
This is Bruno's apology to Shmuel after he fails to speak up for his friend to Lieutenant Kotler. It is implied to the reader that his inaction resulted in physical harm to Shmuel, and here is compelled to take responsibility for the pain he has caused. This moment sets him apart from Father and the other Nazis, who are causing pain on a much larger scale but do not take responsibility for it.
"Those people... well, they're not people at all, Bruno.”
When Bruno asks Father about the Jews he has seen living on the other side of the fence, Father urges him not to worry about them or try to understand them. In this quotation, he offers the explanation for how the Nazis were able to carry out such atrocities against the Jews: they convinced themselves that they were not people, and therefore were not entitled to basic human rights or even to life.
Analysis:What my examples show: (could include your reaction or what you think the general reader’s/ audience’s reaction might be) What did you learn from this?
Bruno comes home to find his family is moving, once settled into “Out With”,Bruno realises they’ll be living there for the “foreseeable future.” Bruno looks out his window and people outside wearing striped pyjamas and caps. Bruno notices how they’re only boys,mean or elderly men: no girls or woman. Bruno meets shmuel from the other side of the fence, they become good friends. Falling action, Bruno is forbidden to go anywhere near the fence, Bruno help shmuel find his papa. Both boys die in gas chambers. Resolution, gretel and their mum go back to berlin, heartbroken after Bruno's disappearance. Bruno's father is sitting where bruno was last, and he comes to realise he has gassed his own son. What makes The Boy in the Striped Pajamas so effective is that rather than examining the big picture of the Holocaust and its atrocities, the novel instead focuses on individual relationships and gives readers an intimate portrait of two innocent boys seeking the same thing: friendship. Readers are cautioned, however, that even though the novel is about two nine-year-old boys, the novel is most definitely not geared toward this age group. The novel's devastating conclusion is not only beyond children's ability to comprehend but also in defiance of their worldview.
Links Between Text and Self:
How/ why I can relate to this OR how a particular audience might be able to relate to it (eg: teenagers, parents, the elderly etc.)
This book relates to young teens, because it was directed towards young teens because the holocaust was written from a child's standpoint. The author made Bruno and Shmuel very similar they are both nine years old, and are both brought to a place against their will. Yet they are so different because Shumel is a Jew who is treated inhumanely by the Germans, and Bruno lives a life of luxury. Yet, throughout their friendship, neither of them feels that they are different from one another. When Bruno puts on the striped pajamas, Shmuel recognizes that “If it wasn’t for the fact that Bruno was nowhere near as skinny as the boys on his side of the fence, and not quite so pale either, it would have been difficult to tell them apart. It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really." This is the pivotal moment in which Shmuel and the readers realize that we are all the same. I can relate to the point of being taken against your will, although under different circumstances. I moved town and schools although we have modern technology to stay connected to back home unlike back in
Links between the Text and The Wider World: (could include universal ideas)
Bruno realises that his father is an important man, and feels proud that other Germans look up to him. But in reality his father is overseeing the genocide of Jews at Auschwitz. The Holocaust has given rise to countless stories, both true and fictional. It has been the backdrop to tales of tragedy, of evil and of heroism. The Holocaust definition is “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.” and was a real event in our history and one that was understated as such by “ The boy and the striped pyjamas.
This text was worth reading because…
A lot of consideration was put into this novels appropriateness for children, it was thought parents might have to explain the Holocaust. The Holocaust was told from a child's standpoint.
Firstly, almost all fiction, except sci-fi and fantasy, has to use real locations and settings, either contemporary or historical. To criticise Slumdog Millionaire for not being true, though it uses the real setting of India’s slums and sectarian violence, or The Shawshank Redemption for not being representative of a real American prison, would miss the point of the stories they are telling.
Secondly, in not trying to tell a historically true story, the author or screenwriter is freed up to tell a story that’s true in other, perhaps deeper, ways. It’s never possible to convey the full truth of actual events; everyone involved will have different memories and perspectives, and all versions will be necessarily partial and partisan. But in using a broadly historical setting to tell a fictional tale, it becomes possible to tell deeper truths than the mere reporting of facts and events, truths about the human condition, about human relationships and emotions, about (in this case) human responses to suffering and evil and brutality.
Of course, it’s still important to get the historical details broadly correct Perhaps The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas does present a somewhat skewed and partial view.
_
Compared to other legumes, it is also resistant to many insect pests (Tiwari and Campbell, 1996a; Tiwari and Campbell, 1996b; Berger et al., 1999; Sillero et al., 2005).
Nanoparticles (NPs) are wide class of materials that include particulate substances, which have one dimension less than 100 nm at least (Laurent et al., 2010). The importance of these materials realized when researchers found that size can influence the physiochemical properties of a substance e.g. the optical properties (Khan et al., 2017). NPs with different composition, size, and concentration, physical/ chemical properties have been reported to influence growth and development of various plant species with both positive and negative effects (Ma et al., 2010). Silver nanoparticles have been implicated in agriculture for improving crops. There are many reports indicating that appropriate concentrations of AgNPs play an important role in plant growth (Hojjat and Hojjat, 2015; Kaveh et al., 2013). The application of Nano silver during germination process may enhance germination traits, plant growth and resistance to salinity conditions in basil seedlings (Darvishzadeh et al., 2015). The use of Silver Nanoparticle on Fenugreek Seed Germination under Salinity Levels is a recent practice studied (Hojjat and Kamyab, 2017). Nanomaterials have also been used for various fundamental and practical applications (Kolekar et al., 2011). Although the potential of AgNPs in improving salinity resistance has been reported in several plant species (Ekhtiyari et al., 2011; Younes et al., 2011), its role in the alleviation of salinity effect and related mechanisms is still unknown. Therefore, the main objective of this work was to study the effect of Silver Nanoparticles on salt tolerance in Lathyrus sativus L.
