ACHIEVEMENT 3 BY @alexanderpeace TASK : CONTENT ETIQUETTE

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What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is taking someone's work or idea and passing them off as your own.

"Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement. All published and unpublished material, whether in manuscript, printed or electronic form, is covered under this definition."
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Plagiarism is a crime. As a content creator, I should be able to think deeply and come up with insightful articles. If I must integrate people's ideas to my work as it makes my work richer and more professional, then I should acknowledge fully the source of the idea. I shouldn't pass other people's ideas as mine.

There are different types of plagiarism, below are definitions of some common types.

Direct plagiarism
Direct plagiarism is when you transcribe a section of someone else's work word for word without quotation marks and attribution.
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Self Plagiarism
Self-plagiarism is the submission of someones own previous work or mixture with previous work without permission from all professors involved.
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Mosaic Plagiarism
Mosaic Plagiarism is the borrowing of a from a source without using quotation marks or finds synonyms for the author’s language while keeping to the same general structure and meaning of the original.
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Accidental Plagiarism
Accidental plagiarism is the neglect to site sources or misquotation of sources or the unintentional paraphrase of a source using similar words or sentence structure without attribution.
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I should avoid plagiarism because I long to produce work of the highest quality. As I've learnt the principles of source use and citation, I should find it relatively straightforward to avoid plagiarism. Moreover, I will reap the additional benefits of improvements to both the transparency and quality of my writing.
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