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Today I will share with you what is plagiarism? Types of plagiarism and how to avoid plagiarism. Please stay with me as i take you through what plagiarism is.
PLAGIARISM
WHAT IS PLAGIARISM?
Plagiarism simply means stealing, following, copying and borrowing someone's else's original ideas and presenting it as completely your own especially without the consent of the original authoritative and making it work without full acknoledgement.
TYPES OF PLAGIARISM
Global plagiarism:
Global plagiarism is the presenting of an entire text by someone else as your own work
Paraphrasing plagiarism:
Paraphrasing plagiarism is the paraphrasing of someone's else's ideas without citation.
Verbal plagiarism:
Verbal plagiarism is the direct copying of a passage text without citation.
Self or Auto plagiarism:
Self or Auto plagiarism means reusing passages and ideas from your own previously submitted work.
We should acknowledge others work or ideas applies not only to text, but also to the media, such as computer codes, illustrations, graphs etc it applies equally to published text and data drawn from books and jounals, and to unpublished text and data, whether from lectures, theses or other students essays. You must also attribute text, data, or other resources downloaded from websites.
HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM
- Use a plagiarism checker before you submit.
- Paraphrase or quote from your sources and add your own ideas.
- Credit the original author in an in-text citation and reference list.
- Understand good paraphrasing.
- Don't procrastinate with your research and assignments. Good research takes time.
HOW IS PLAGIARISM DETECTED?
If the tone or style of the text changes between passages, or if they’re familiar with the source that’s been plagiarized.
Most people also use plagiarism detection software such as Turnitin, which compares your text to a large database of other sources and highlights similarities.
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Plagiarism is a serious offense iI'm happy you now know how illegal plaagrism is.
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Yes @beewrites. Thanks for your comment
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Thanks for bringing the subject of plagiarism ones again. Much has been said earlier about this topic by fellow Steemians.
All of us should stay clear of this unhealthy habit. However, your write up is too short, you should have lengthen it. Thanks again.
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Thank you sir, i will try and do that in my next task.
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please refer the task post and write more about the subject including how to avoid plagiarism and then reply to me so I can verify you
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I have added more on the subject ma. If there is more to correct i will gladly do @ngoenyi
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