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Plagiarism

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Plagiarism can be stated as presenting or publishing someone else work as your own without their permission. Plagiarism is very unethical and it is stealing someone else work without their mutual consent. Plagiarism is unethical because it is sort of stealing. Whosoever is doing this is to considered as a fraud
Plagiarism is a crime which has to be stopped by every means.

Types of Plagiarism

• Direct Plagiarism
• Mosaic plagiarism
• Self-Plagiarism
• Accidental Plagiarism

1. Direct Plagiarism
   Direct plagiarism is one of the dangerous
   In this plagiarist copy paste someone else work without giving credit to them and do not cite their original source. Direct plagiarism is copying some parts of someone else work

2. Mosaic Plagiarism
   This is also the type of plagiarism but it is not done deliberately and person has no intention towards it.
   Plagiarism is plagiarism weather the person has the intention or not because crime is always a crime. Plagiarist should have cited the copied work to give credit to main author .

3. Self-Plagiarism
   This type of plagiarism is very common among us. It’s example can be taken as high school students complete their assignment by copying form internet without proper reference this can cost the student in their grades.

4. Accidental Plagiarism
   This type of plagiarism often occurs due to the misquoted phrases from original content and do not give proper authentication of original author.

How to avoid Plagiarism

To avoid plagiarism and to be authentic, if your stating someone else work please refer them by providing authentic reference. Try write on your own words after understanding the topic. Write unique content

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