ACHIEVEMENT 03 by @chanukaushal - CONTENT ETIQUETTE

Hi Everyone! I'm going to write on the topic "What is Plagiarism?". This is a very essential topic because plagiarism can be seen on many occasions in our day to day life. As you are a social media user you can see that there are so many posts that has been made using other resources without permission. Let's talk about plagiarism.

Plagiarism is the representation of someone's work as our property or as our work. It has been registered as an intellectual property or not but it is an illegal action and when we look at it from the social point of view it is a very embarrassing work.

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How to avoid plagiarism?

Plagiarism should be avoided because it may harm your personality and your talent. Not only that, the owner of the content can take legal actions against you. So it a must to stop plagiarism. There are five ways that we can stop plagiarism.

Cite the source

• When you are using other one's content use the source link and other information about that.
  : Community is a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage ^Source

Include quotation marks

• When you use a sentence or paragraph use the quotation marks.
  : "Community is a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage"^Source

Paraphrase

• Use your own ideas and words to reveal the meaning of the content that you want.
  : Community is a social group that contains different kind of people that connected with similarities between them

Use a plagiarism checker

• Use a plagiarism checker to check whether your content is plagiarized or not.
  : Community is a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage^Source
  : Use a plagiarism checker like
  https://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/
  https://plagiarismdetector.net/
  https://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker/
  : Then it will show you
  0% Unique 100% Plagiarized

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Conclusion

Plagiarism is a very illegal and embarrassing thing to do. As steemit users we should be loyal to post our own ideas. We can study Steemit etiquette to avoid plagiarism and other unauthorized works on steemit.
I have read and understood the Steemit Etiquette on Steemit Community and will do my best to embrace them.

Thank you !