Achievement 3 By @marwone: Content Etiquette/Plagiarism

Hello guys,

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In achievement 3, we are looking at PLAGIARISM which is one of the acts steemit frowns upon.

Plagiarism is a bad act to engage in on the steemit blog.

How will you feel if someone should use your work for a commercial purpose without your concern? It will definitely hurt you considering the time, effort and recourses you used put in to do the work.

Plagiarism is a serious offense and could result in some punishment such as being muted, suspended from the community or your content being ignored by curators.
It is advisable to stay away from this act and here are some ways to keep away from such act;

1 BE CREATIVE and ORIGINAL;

when we talk of creativity it is simply the act of being able to imagine and bring into existence the unknown and being able to create staffs out of ones own thoughts.
It’s always good to be creative, in that way you can do design any staffs from your own imaginations.
When this you don’t need to worry about plagiarism since you have the greatest believe that its your work.

2 USE PLAGIARISM CHECKER ;

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Using a plagiarism checker helps a lot, it is able to detect whether no one has created your act or content. Who knows , its possible that no matter how good you are someone else could have done the same work you have also done.
so in order to stay save from plagiarism its more advisable to use a plagiarism checker to stay on the safer side.

3 GIVE REFERENCE TO THE ORIGINAL SOURCE;

not everything that you can create all by yourself. Sometimes you need the help of others to get a work done. This implies to us content creators on sxteemit blog.

Sometimes we need staffs like images and others just to make our content complete. We all know not all of us can design pictures or images but we need them in our content to make them look good and appealing to the viewer.
The good news is you can borrow such images but always remember to site the source. This can be done using the code”. [source](the image link) “.

4 USE QUOTES AND PARAPHRASE;

when it comes to quoting someones else words or content, its advisable to use the quotation marks “”.
And also mention the source or name of the author. That way they feel credited for go work done
And it wont look it its you personal work.

5 USE COPY RIGHT FREE SITE ;

its advisable to use copy right free content in your arts or contents.
this is normally necessary when it comes to the use of pictures from other sites.
An example of a copyright free site when it comes to the use of images is CREATIVECOMMONS.

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

Thank you.