Achievement 3 @abubakar88 task: plagiarism

Greetings everyone.
Today is another great day God has blessed us with and I hope everybody is great. I am done with my achievement one and two so the next step is to do the achievement three. Achievement three is about plagiarism so I am here to talk about plagiarism.

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WHAT IS PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism means stealing or using one's words or ideas as your own words without crediting or citing the source. Plagiarism goes beyoung using peoples words as your own as many people think, but stealing one's idea is also without crediting the owner is also plagiarism. If you paraphrase a text, the owner need to be credited. Yes words and ideas of peoples can be used be you have to credit the owners.

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TYPES OF PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism is categorize into different types and below are the the types:

1. Direct plagiarism: This form of plagiarism is also known as copy and paste plagiarism. This is the act of using paragraph from someone else's work without citation. In Steemians, if you copy and paste someone's post without crediting the owner, you will be penalized for plagiarism. Someones paragraph can be added to your work but the source have be cited in other to avoid plagiarism. Or you have to quote the paragraph to show that it is somebody's words.

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2. Self-plagiarism: This is a type of plagiarism which occurs when someone uses part of his previous work without citation. Although it sounds a bit crazy but you will be panelize for plagiarism for using your own words without citation. This is because the readers of your work are expecting you work to be new and original

3. Mosaic plagiarism: This is the act of taking words and ideas from different pieces of text of other people together to create a kind of “mosaic” idea. Although the result is a completely new piece of text, but the words and ideas aren’t new. This kind of plagiarism is call mosaic plagiarism.

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4. Accidental plagiarism: This type of plagiarism occurs when you use words or ideas you do not know it belongs to someone. In short, this type of plagiarism occurs when you unintentionally use someone's words or ideas. In this case, there will be no citation because you do not know the words belong to someone else.

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How to avoid plagiarism
To avoid plagiarism, simply follow these two steps:

1. Quote any paragraph, words or ideas from someone else. Examples "We inform you that the Newcomers' Community and Steemit Nursery Community are working together! Despite that, we will be sharing the update on both"
2. Give credit to the original source by including a citation in the text and the reference list. Example of in text citation is: Recent research shows many of these Southern cities are dealing with crises which are compounded by rapid population growth (Watson, 2009).

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Effect of plagiarism
The consequences of plagiarism depend on the type of plagiarism. Below are some possible effect of plagiarism.

1. Copyright infringement
2. Ruined reputation
3. As a student, you can fail your course

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I have read and understood the steemit Etiquette on steemit community and will do my best to embrace them.

Thanks to @cryptokannon for the mentorship.

Another appreciation goes to @njaywan and @oppongk for their directions and guidance in this noble community.

Thank you all