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Greetings steeminians friends from Newcomers' Community

Today I join in realizing my achievement 3. No to plagiarism in our publications.

Plagiarism is very frowned upon and is nowadays very common, but there are ways to detect it. First let's see what plagiarism is on the web:

What is plagiarism

Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work, content, or ideas and present as his/her work. In other words, plagiarism is simply an act of fraud. It involves both conditions like steal someone else’s work, present as their work, and lying about it afterward. In simple words, plagiarism is copying words or ideas from someone else’s work without giving credit, give incorrect information about the source of a quotation. Also, it is important to remember that there are many types of plagiarism.source

That is, when copying any document, photos, research, press articles or magazines, letters or videos that are made by other people and we use it for our benefit, it is something very frowned upon and unethical; since as users and content creators on this Steemit platform we must create original and authentic content.

There are several types of plagiarism, let's see what the web tells us what they are:

The 5 most common types of plagiarism:

Direct Plagiarism

It is a severe form of plagiarism because it is word-to-word copying of a section of someone’s work without quotation marks. Copying someone else’s work is unethical and academic dishonesty, and it may result in disciplinary actions or expulsion from the institution. source

Self Plagiarism

Self-plagiarism is the most accessible and straight forward form of plagiarism. It’s a perfect example of borrowing materials from one’s previous work without the knowledge of the professor. source

Accidental Plagiarism

If an author or a writer neglects to cite their sources, unintentionally paraphrases or some other work without attribution then the writer commits plagiarism. It is Accidental plagiarism and even though the word accidental is attached to it, this form of plagiarism is also given equal importance compared to any other form of plagiarism.source

Paraphrasing

In paraphrasing plagiarism, a writer usually copies or takes a central idea or some essential points from someone else’s work. After using some synonyms and restructuring the sentences, they add that content in their work and present as their content but without proper attribution.source

Mosaic Plagiarism

It is the process in which students use synonyms to replace the words of the original content and present the work as their own. In mosaic plagiarism, the students use the author’s main or central idea and argument with just making replacements of words or sentences or merely restated that with their own words and vocabulary, without changing the meaning or central purpose of the original content. source

It is better to be original and know how to share authentic content so as not to have any legal and copyright problems; in addition, in many countries this crime is penalized with high sums. If you use images, documents or web content, be sure to publish the source from which you take it and thus avoid being labeled as a plagiarist.

Plagiarism is a blatant theft of information from an author. This is very frowned upon, as it affects the original author and leads to many other legal problems of that information or work. It is not considered plagiarism when you use your camera and take a photo of what you want and publish or share it on your social network, it is yours and just as someone can take your photo without placing the source or origin of it, you would be a victim of plagiarism.

It is important to know that it is plagiarism and that it is not, since I would not like to know that someone has plagiarized my publications, photos, videos and so on... that I have posted or shared; because it would be very unpleasant to have that experience. We must respect what is foreign and thus recognize that all work takes time and effort to do.

When taking an image or phrase from the web, the source or quotation must be placed in quotation marks and with its respective source of origin, generally not all of us have our own images to make the references we want to cite, therefore it is better to avoid doing this type of crime and use the source. In addition, there are images in the public domain that we can use without as many commitments as those of pixabay or others.

I hope you liked this publication, which I consider valuable.

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