Hello fellow steemians, I bring unto you all greetings and well wishes. And I strongly believe that you are all doing great. I am very happy as I proceed to my achievement3 task in the newcomers community. But before that I would like to sincerely express my profound gratitude to @wilmer1988 and @sarkodieeric1 for verifying my achievement 1 and achievement 2 respectively. Achievement 3 seeks to enlighten newcomers on steemit on the etiquettes of the content written and plagiarism to be a little more precise.
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Plagiarism as defined as by the Britain English dictionary is the act of copying another person’s ideas, text or other creative work and presenting it as one’s own especially without permission. Plagiarism in my own words refers to mindless lifting of an author’s work without permission and using it as one’s own. There are basically four types of plagiarism; direct plagiarism, self-plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism and accidental plagiarism. I would like us to go through these types of plagiarism listed above and know what makes them different.
Direct plagiarism; this refers to the word-for-word lifting of another authors work be it texts or an idea without attribution to the person and without quotation marks. If this is deliberately done, then it can be said to be unethical.
Self-plagiarism; this type of plagiarism is common among students.it is when a person say a student submits his own previous work or mixes parts of the previous work without permission from all professors to do so. submitting the same piece of work in different classes without permission can also be considered as self-plagiarism.
Accidental plagiarism; this occurs when a person neglects to cite(citation) their sources, or when a person misquotes their sources, better yet unintentionally paraphrases a sources by the use of similar words or structure without attribution to the source
Mosaic plagiarism; this occurs when a person borrows phrases from a source without attribution to the source and without the use of quotation marks or when a person uses synonyms for the source whilst maintaining the same meaning and structure.
Citation
This is the act of bringing to the awareness of your audience or readers that certain ideas in the content are not completely your own but someone else’s ideas. The three common types of citation are the modern language association, Chicago style and the American psychological association.
in steemit, it is always important that steemians do well to add the sources of their work to prevent any form of plagiarism and make work void of copyright abuses. For instance, when one uploads a picture that one has not captured or screenshot in steemit, one is obliged to add the source of the picture;
usually, a formula is used with the link to source of the to add it's source just underneath. I personally urge all steemians to always check for plagiarism after each and every write up before posting it.Steemians can check for plagiarism before posting them.
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The picture above is a site where one can check for plagiarism before posting with it's link .
I would like thank @cryptokannon for ensuring that plagiarism is checked properly because what makes a steemian is the resilience to writing and reading and also @beniba for guiding me through this task.
Thank you