Achievement 3 post: plagiarism by eudora1

Hello Everyone i am here again on steemit to complete my achievement 3 post again.

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WHAT IS PLAGIARISM?

Plagiarism can be defined as copying other author work or ideas or even words and using it as one's own words without quoting the line and without citing its source. In simple words we can say that copying of someone 's work and presenting it to be your work is Plagiarism .

Types of Plagiarism

1. Direct Plagiarism :

This is word -for-word transcription of a section of someone else's work without quotation marks or citation can be defined as Direct Plagiarism. This is unethical and dishonest practice and should be stopped.

2.MosaicPlagiarism:

When a student borrows phrases without quotation marks and keeps the same structure and meaning of the original source ,it is academically dishonest

3.Accidental Plagiarism:

When a person misquotes their sources or neglect to cite their sources or phrases a source by using similar words or sentence structure without attribution.

4.Self Plagiarism,:

Taking your own work and presenting it new word . And it should be avoided as it misleads the readers by showing old work as completely new words

HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM

Properly cite sources from where the information is taken. For example the text below's link can be shown below;

"All your dreams can come true if we have courage to pursue them"-walt disney.
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STEPS

1.Check your work for Possible Plagiarism: It's always a good of using a tool to check whether original source are cited or not.
2.Properly quote and Paraphrase: Using of information with proper Paraphasing and Quoting.

"I have read and understand the steemit equittet and I will try my best to follow them"

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