Achievement 3 by @trayckierra Task: Content Etiquette

Plagiarism

If you are a creative, that is, you create words, art, or anything under your name, you’ve probably faced plagiarism and even if you haven’t, you may have heard the word passed around.

This doesn’t only apply to creatives. Maybe you’ve copied or taken something off the internet or somewhere without crediting the true owner. Did you know that is plagiarism? I shall tell you how.

Plagiarism is the presentation of another person’s work, be it information, ideas, words, art or anything as yours. This means you are not citing the true source of the work, failing to give credit to the true owner of the work and passing it off as your own right to the point of taking credit and making profits from it. Plagiarism is a crime against copyright laws and it is a punishable offence.

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Types

There are different types of plagiarism and it is important to understand the types to know which one you are committing if you are committing it. I shall give the types of plagiarism.

Copy-and-paste plagiarism:

Here, you are copying and pasting an entire work without crediting the source.

Mosaic plagiarism:

In this type, you are plagiarising by copying bits and pieces of different works and patching together to form one whole document without crediting the sources.

Self-plagiarism:

Here, you are repeating what you have done before rather than producing something new and original. In this case, you are plagiarising yourself.

Global plagiarism:

Here, not only are you copying parts, you are passing off someone’s entire work as yours and this is the worst type.

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