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WHAT IS PLAGIARISM

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 All published and unpublished material, whether in manuscript, printed or electronic form, is covered under this definition. Plagiarism may be intentional or reckless, or unintentional. Under the regulations for examinations, intentional or reckless plagiarism is a disciplinary offence.source

What are the Different Kinds of Plagiarism?

Direct Plagiarism

Most commonly, the crime of plagiarism involves adopting parts from the writing of another writer without proper mention of the source.

Mosaic Plagiarism

There is another type of plagiarism which is unintentional. In this case, the plagiarist may have mentioned the source of the content he has referred to.

Self-Plagiarism

Self-plagiarism is one of the common types of plagiarism, where high school students copy and paste part of their previously submitted academic paper.

Accidental Plagiarism

Another common form of plagiarism involves accidental plagiarism. When the plagiarist misquotes the phrases or parts of the text he/she has taken from the source material or does not cite the source even or adequately or cites a wrong source, they that is considered as plagiarism. source

Practices for Avoiding Plagiarism

Don't procrastinate with your research and assignments
Good research takes time. Procrastinating makes it likely you'll run out of time or be unduly pressured to finish. This sort of pressure can often lead to sloppy research habits and bad decisions.

Cite your sources scrupulously
Always cite other people's work, words, ideas and phrases.When you use words or phrases from other sources, these need to be in quotes. Current style manuals are available at most reference desks and online.

Understand good paraphrasing.
Simply using synonyms or scrambling an author's words and phrases and then using these "rewrites" uncredited in your work is plagiarism, plain and simple. Good paraphrasing requires that you genuinely understand the original source, that you are genuinely using your own words to summarize a point or concept, and that you insert in quotes any unique words or phrases you use from the original source.

CONCLUSION

Steemit is a platform in which people share content everyday, we must bear in mind that the use of copyright is essential, in this way we would respect the creator, we give a more professional touch to our publications and we would be following the pre-established protocols on the platform.I have read and understood the Steemit Etiquette on Steemit Community and will do my best to embrace them at the end of this task post.

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