Achievement3 by @c-favour task : content etiquette

Hello Steemian! I’m happy to be advancing in my steemit journey. I will like to show my understanding on Content Etiquette in this achievement post.
Most writers and researchers sometimes work on other writers and researchers ideas and resources that are online or offline. This is welcome if proper credit is given to the owner of the idea or resources. When a researcher copy another person’s work or idea without properly referencing nor citing the owner then it is called plagiarism which is an intellectual theft. Plagiarism is a punishable offence and offenders must be punished.

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Definition of Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the process or practice of using another person’s ideas or work and pretending that it is your own. It is also the representation of another author’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one’s own original work.

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Types of plagiarism

Self-Plagiarism

Self-plagiarism as the name implies also known as auto-plagiarism is recycling your own previous work. A work or research which has been published by a researcher used by the same researcher for another purpose is known as self-plagiarism.

Paraphrasing plagiarism

Paraphrasing is also known as incremental plagiarism. This is the most common type of plagiarism. However, the difference is that the copied work isn’t mixed in with new concepts and research. When you paraphrase the original idea in your own words, the borrowed material stays the same throughout the new piece. This type of plagiarism most writers re-write already existing work or idea using different words or synonyms of the words. Some writers do it knowly while other writers do unknowingly to make it easy to comprehend. Proper citation of work and idea can solve the problem paraphrasing plagiarism.

Global Plagiarism

Global means to take an entire work or idea by someone else and pass and pass it off as your own work or idea. Example of global plagiarism is copying and pasting an article found online and calling it theirs. Also a student buying a paper someone else wrote is another example.

Verbatim Plagiarism

Direct plagiarism also known as verbatim or copy-paste plagiarism, is an intentional and unethical form of stealing content. As the name suggests, the writing is stolen word for word and pasted into the new piece. The author then tries to pass off the content as their own.
It is necessary to quote authors word for word but this should be done properly by putting the word(s) in quotation marks and citing it close to the quoted text.

Patchwork Plagiarism

Patchwork plagiarism is plagiarizing parts of different sources and stitching them together into a new work. A writer can take different peoples works and ideas and merge them together to form a new work without citing the owners of the work.
Plagiarism is an intellectual theft and it is an offence which is punishable. Plagiarism maybe done intentional or unknowingly but offenders must not go scot free.
Doing this task, I’m aware of different types of plagiarism. As a blogger, writer and a Steemian I should forbid any form of plagiarism.

I have read and understood the Steemit Etiquette on Steem Community and will do my best to embrace them

Thanks for reading through my Achievement post.

@juichi