ACHIEVEMENT 3 @mesopat TASK: CONTENT ETIQUETTE
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I will be talking about plagiarism.
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Plagarism is the stealing of someone else's work, it is called stealing because there was no right to the use of the work or when one claims ownership of another author's work or idea.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, plagiarism is;
"The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own".
Plagiarism is the representation of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work. Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement. All published and unpublished material, whether in manuscript, printed or electronic form, is covered under this definition.source
There are many types of plagiarism. We are just quoting a few of them.
Direct Plagiarism: It is the word-for-word transcription of a section of someone else's work, where the user doesn't use quotation marks or proper citation. Such deliberate actions are considered unethical and academic dishonesty.
Self-Plagiarism: This occurs when a person submits his/her own previous work or a mixture of past assignments without permission from the professors, involved.
Patch Writing: This is also called as "Mosaic Plagiarism." It occurs when a student borrows phrases from a source without using quotation marks. Or s/he finds synonyms for the author's language but keeps the same general structure and meaning of the content.
Accidental Plagiarism: Such situation happens when a person neglects to cite their sources, or misquotes them. Unintentional paraphrasing or grouping of words that match some other source may also fall under this. Cases of accidental plagiarism are taken as seriously as any other plagiarism.
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By following the simple suggestions, one can easily avoid plagiarism and its negative consequences listed above.
In most of the cases, we can avoid it by citing original sources. According to wikipedia
A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion at the spot where the citation appears.source
Simple acknowledgement that certain material has been borrowed from the said source can keep things normal. This could be done by adding this markdown sign >
before your sentence and as well putting the word in quote and provide the source or reference it.
Also, it is not just words that should be cited, images should as well be cited.
Step 1:paste your image in your writing page
Step2: open [write image source and then close]
Step3: open a bracket (paste the link of the image and close the image)
E.g image source
Even if we try our best, it may happen that we may fall prey to plagiarism, unintentionally. Therefore, the last option is to download a plagiarism detector like Plagiarism Checker X and use it for every assignment. Spend a little amount and time on such scanning service and save yourself from embarrassment and penalties.
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