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What is plagiarism?

• plagiarism is when you claim someone work with out mentioning the person and claim it as our own.

Typs of plagiarism

• self plagiarism: this means that you have written that thing before, and now you go back and copy it write it again as if is something new

• Image plagiarism: like now the image i used here is not my own,is from google,if i downloaded it use it without putting the link is image plagiarism,so each time we want to usr free image,we must include the link,if not is image plagiarism.

How to avoid plagiarism

For you to avoid plagiarism,it easy,for a student, what you need to do is to read your text book, make research, ask questions,write down what you understand from what you read in your own words,If you are a tailor make you hang clothes that you know how to sew,not claiming that you are the one who sew the clothes and person give clothes to sew for her you can not sew it well,so anything you want to do or say.say the truth that is how to avoid plagiarism or copy and paste.

Citation

Citation is to another person that you are not the one that did it ,it is your brother or your sister, like in our house,if my brother wash plate and my think is me,i will say mummy is not me is Justice that wash it,as i mentioned his name,is citation.

For example: we will go to the village tomorrow,

My mother said we will go to the village tomorrow

The second example will help anyone that read it to know that i am citing my mother

• How to cite a text: what you need to do is to chrome, type the name of text or the author it will come out then copy the link text and add it to the text you copied.

• How to cite image:it is similar to citing a text, for example if you want to get image of plagiarism, you will type, free image of plagiarism, click on image, many images will show, copy the image you like and also copy the link of the image yo avoid plagiarism

Conclusion

I have read and understand the steemit etiquette on steemit community and i will do my best to embrace them.

Thank you @cryptokannon @ngoenyi