Achievement 3 by @anusha96 Task : Content Etiquette

Hello everyone!
Hope all you are well and enjoying your time. I'm back with my third achievement which is all about plagiarism. As a newbie I have already completed my achievement 1 and 2 successfully. I feel immense happiness doing my achievement 3 task right now on the Steem Greet achievement series.

What is plagiarism?

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First of all let's see what is citation. In our writing we produce articles, posts, essays and other reports in order to convey our new knowledge and ideas to the community. To produce these creative articles or posts we have to refer to other knowledge sources such as books, articles, web pages and various kinds of sources produced by others.

In order to create new articles we have to access the existing knowledge because normally new knowledge is often based on the existing knowledge. Here we have to study other people's creations to gain and interpret to the existing knowledge. We have to analytically point out other's ideas to support our creations.

"A citation is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source. It also gives your readers the information necessary to find that source again."
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What if I don't cite my sources or if I forget to cite?
Failure to cite appropriately intentionally or unintentionally is plagiarism.

According to the Oxford Dictionary Plagiarism is:
“The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own”
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"In precise words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's artwork and lying approximately it in a while."
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Ethically, we cannot express other's ideas as our own and therefore, we have to give credit to the owner or creator of that product. Here we need to follow a specific as well as unambiguous method to give reference to others creations. This process is called citation. It ensures the intellectual property rights and avoids plagiarism.

So I hope to share basic idea of citation and plagiarism through this post. So guys be creative! produce and share quality posts with original content and avoid plagiarism.

To conclude my post I would like to mention @cryptokannon because your guidance much helped to me doing this task.

Thank you for reading.