Achievement 3: Content Etiquette(plagiarism)

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Steemit is a social media platform that rewards users who participate in it's blockchain for original contents produced from their brains. Here users receives cryptocurrencies enabled in the platform; steem, steem dollar, SP and Tron.

Due to the originality required by the Steemit platform it is therefore unreasonable and uncalled for to plagiarize/copy other users work and gain credit for their work without duely acknowledging or referencing the user. This is seen and known as the ‘plagiarism’. And Steemit does not tolerate any form of plagiarism.

WHAT IS PLAGIARISM?

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Plagiarism is the stealing of a person's work. It is basically the presentation of another person's work or content and passing it off as yours without duely incorporating/referencing the user in the content.

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There are different types of plagiarism, each bearing the same consequences, if it is done.

TYPES OF PLAGIARISM

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Direct plagiarism:

This is also know as clone plagiarism. Direct plagiarism is the ‘Word for word’ cloning of another person's work.

Self plagiarism

This is the repetition of one's previous work without necessarily seeking permission/authority from the official who the work is to be given to.

Accidental plagiarism

This is an unintentional omission of citations in a work. It is basically forgetting to cite an author in a work or project that has been written.

Mosaic

This is also known as patch-writing. It is the copying and pasting of a phrase or a sentence in a person's work without necessarily citing the true author of the work.

HOW TO PREVENT PLAGIARISM

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Plagiarism has been said to be a crime, but it should be known that no word or work is written that hasn't been written prior. That said, it is important to prevent and avoid plagiarism so as to prevent punishment/avoid being passed out as a criminal.

Below are the ways to prevent plagiarism;

• Produce your own ideas
• Always remember to Paraphrase your texts
• Citations
• After ending your work, make use of a plagiarism checker so as to make sure your work does not correlate with another.

CONCLUSION

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

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Special thanks to:
@Ngoenyi
@sarkodieeric1
@sumit71428