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WHAT IS PLAGIARISM
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The meaning of plagiarism

Plagiarism means using someone else’s words or ideas without properly crediting the original author. Sometimes plagiarism involves deliberately stealing someone’s work. Plagiarism is also presenting someone else’s material or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement.

Types of Plagiarism.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Verbatim (copy & paste)

A person involved in verbatim plagiarism when he or she directly copy text from a source and paste it in his/her work without properly citing the information, even if delete or change a couple of words here and there.

6. 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.

How to avoid plagiarism

This are few ways to avoid plagiarism when writing an academic work or your personal material and you build upon the work of others and use various sources for information and evidence. To avoid plagiarism, you need to correctly incorporate these sources into your text.

Step 1:

Keep track of your sources
While you’re doing research and taking notes for your paperwork, make sure to record the source of each piece of information u use. One way to commit plagiarism is by simply forgetting where an idea came from and unintentionally presenting it as your own..

Step 2:

quote and paraphrase.
While writing your paper, if you want to share an idea or a piece of information from a source, you must either paraphrase or quote the original text.

Example:
Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life. T. D. Jakes.

Step 3:

Cite the original source
Every time you quote or paraphrase, you must include an in-text citation (or footnote citation) that identifies the original author. It often also includes the publication year and a page number.

Step 4:

Use a plagiarism checker
This technology scans your document, compares it to a huge database of publications and websites, and highlights passages that are overly similar to other text.

A “citation” is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source. It also gives your readers the information necessary to find the location details of that source on the reference or Works Cited page. A citation must include a set of parentheses.

Example of citation

In life you have to understand that "You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the live of others". (Wole Soyinka )
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/646713

Conclusion
I have read and understood steemit content Etiquete and promise to abide by them.

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