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Hello guys, in this post I’ll be talking about plagiarism.

Plagiarism is the representation of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work. In educational contexts, there are differing definitions of plagiarism depending on the institution. wikipedia

There are many ways works of people can be plagiarized. Some of which I’ll be talking about is

1. Complete plagiarism
   This type of plagiarism has to do with copying all of the original content from an article or post and submitting it under your name. In this case the writer is not acknowledged and it’s referred to as intellectual theft and stealing enago

1. Source based plagiarism
   This type of plagiarism is giving the wrong citation or reference to the original work. Wrong referencing mislead others trying to obtain information from such article. enago

2. Direct plagiarism
   This type of plagiarism is more like complete plagiarism but this only refers to section of work. Some people section of an article directly without acknowledging the author. This means without quoting the author with quotation mark. This is very bad and calls for academic discipline. enago

3. Self plagiarism
   This type of plagiarism mostly done by authors or publishers. They copy exact content of their previous works without giving them citations or references. This type of plagiarism is debatable since it’s the work of the same author. enago

4. Paraphrasing plagiarism
   This type of plagiarism is when parts of an article is change but maintains the exact meaning of the article and making it as your own words. enago

5. Mosaic plagiarism
   Mosaic Plagiarism occurs when a student borrows phrases 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. Sometimes called “patch writing,” this kind of paraphrasing, whether intentional or not, is academically dishonest and punishable.enago

CAUSES OF PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism is one the acts that makes students very lazy and here are the reasons why students or most people plagiarized;

1. Fear to fail: Some people think that the only way they can come up with a good work is by stealing from others. They are usually influenced by the fear of failing if they don't get a good grade.
2. Procrastination and laziness: Others too are too lazy to create their own work, they tend to always postpone the time to sit down and come up with a good content of their own. As the saying goes "procastination is a thief of time". This later leaves them with little time to create an oringinal and their only option left is to steal another person's work.
3. Belief of not getting caught: Some people also think they are too smart to be caught in the act. They go ahead in using others work with the idea that nobody will ever notice that they are using a plagiarized content.

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WAYS TO STOP PLAGIARISM
There’s the need to stop plagiarism in order to value others work and bring out creativity in our works. To do this we have to

1. Avoid procastination: When you avoid procrastination, you will find quality time to create a good content.
2. Always cite the source of any borrowed content.
3. Give credit to authors that you may have used their work.

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