Plagiarism is the act of using someone else’s work, ideas, words, or intellectual property without proper acknowledgment or permission, and presenting it as your own. Even reusing your own previously published work or parts of it without proper citation or acknowledgment is also considered Self-Plagiarism.
If a distinctive phrase, sentence, or passage from a source is used verbatim without quotation marks and proper citation, it is considered plagiarism. Even short phrases can be plagiarized if they are unique or particularly distinctive to the original author. This, of course, can easily lead to paper desk-rejection.
Check Plagiarism is necessary because it could happen that sometimes, you pasted something from your old paper or someone else paper and thought I would fix that later, but then you forgot. So, I recommend that you check for plagiarism carefully before submitting a paper.
There are expensive softwares out there to do that. However, you can also check by using Grammarly. Go to https://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker . Then, you can upload a file for it to scan. If you use Latex, you can also paste Latex codes in for it to scan.
If you are in the web version of Grammarly then notice the plagiarism function is also available there, at the right down corner:
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