Illustrative book-manuscript excerpt
Public trust can decline when institutions repeat familiar messages without showing how decisions were reached. When readers encounter the same distinctive wording used in a source, the overlap should be checked before publication.
Some language may be conventional, while other passages may need a quotation, a citation, or clearer attribution. Where an idea is retained without quoting, the author should restate it through genuinely independent wording and sentence structure.
Previously published author material can also need review so that reuse, rights, and attribution are transparent to the intended publisher and reader.
Source overlapCheck whether the wording is distinctive and whether the source is visible to the reader.
Attribution decisionDecide whether the passage needs quotation marks, citation, or another form of acknowledgement.
Paraphrase reviewPreserve the idea while rebuilding the wording from the author's own understanding and voice.
Prior-use reviewIdentify earlier author material and check the publisher or rights context before reuse.