Achievement 3 by @mbozekobrice: Content Etiquette
What is Plagiarism
Many people think of plagiarism as copying another’s work, or borrowing someone else’s original ideas. But terms like “copying” and “borrowing” can disguise the seriousness of the offense:
According to the Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary, to “plagiarize” means
- to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of
another) as one's own - to use (another's production) without crediting the source
- to commit literary theft
- to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source. In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else’s work and lying about it afterward.
But can words and ideas really be stolen?
According to U.S. law, the answer is yes. In the United States and many other countries, the expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property, and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions. Almost all forms of expression fall under copyright protection as long as they are recorded in some media (such as a book or a computer file).
https://www.plagiarism.org/article/what-is-plagiarism
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All of the following are considered plagiarism:
• turning in someone else’s work as your own
• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
• failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
• giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
• changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
• copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on “fair use” rules)
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Consequences of plagiarism
Copyright infringement
How to avoid plagiarism
To avoid plagiarism, simply follow these two steps:
• Quote, paraphrase or summarize the words or ideas from someone else.
• Give credit to the original source by including a citation in the text and the reference list.
https://www.scribbr.com/plagiarism/how-to-avoid-plagiarism/
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Please add these remarks at the end as guided by cryptokannon, if you have got all the concepts about plagiarism and how to avoid it.
Rectify your achievement 2 and 3 to get them verify.
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Hey @mbozekobrice, This is @aniqamashkoor, A greeter helper.
You have completed your achievement 3 about plagiarism. Hope so with completion of this achievement you must have gain all the knowledge about how to source and cite.
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[source] (link)--> there must be no gap between square bracket and round bracket.
It will appear like this source
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