WAYS TO ACHIEVE LOW TURNITIN SCORES 1.      Know about plagiarism. 2.      Know about plagiarism implications. 3.      Know the plagiarism types. 4.      For your article choose a topic that interests you and you know about. 5.      Focus on your idea especially in your introduction. 6.      Use your own words in the introduction, result discussion and conclusion. 7.      Reduce verbatim quotations in your literature review and reference earlier authors appropriately throughout your work. 8.      Use synonyms to replace borrowed words. 9.      Rephrase words and sentences instead of outright quotes. 10.  Use google tools e.g. Spinbot to rewrite necessary borrowed texts. 11.  Use colleagues as initial critics and reviewers of your article before submission. 12.  Use proofreading tools. 13.  Use plagiarism checkers such as Grammarly, none of them is free though advertised as free for limited use excluding plagiarism checks. 14.  Concentrate in minimal word lengths per paper of say 5000 min. or 8000 words max. 15.  Use the proper free referencing tool in Microsoft word. 16.  Use the recitebeta referencing tool which is currently free. HAPPY YULETIDE AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL! SHAKIRAT.