ACHIEVEMENT 3 TASK: CONTENT ETIQUETTE BY @gracy123

PLAGIARISM

This act is really rampant in schools among students. They take materials from a site and add it to their work without acknowledging the original writer.This is popularly Known as the "Copy and Paste" method. Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement. All published and unpublished material, whether in manuscript, printed or electronic form. Plagiarism may be intentional or reckless, or unintentional.

Source

Plagiarism involves a person, using another person's work or post,without giving credit to the original writer. They take very useful content from someones post and disguise like they did the hardwork.

This can be said to as stealing from an original source, and using such posts as a personal one. I also see it as taking another persons written idea and converting it to yours.

More so,to avoid PLAGIARISM, we must acknowledge the writer or give credit to the writers work.This process is called citation.

CITATION

Citation involves the writer, giving credit or acknowledging the original writer's in your write up. That is;stating the source if the write up with verified link to where it can be found.It is referencing the source of information used in your research. Any time you directly quote, paraphrase or summarize the essential elements of someone else's idea in your work.
For instance, I made use of The APA Format citation for my project during my undergraduate days;
Here's an explanation on it;
In APA style, citations include at least these two elements:

author
publication year

A third element is necessary when citing a specific part of a source, such as when quoting, and entails an indicator of the specific part. This element is often a page or paragraph number. A page number is used for a source with pages, such as a book or journal article. A paragraph number is used for a source without pagination, such as a long webpage. The indicator can alternatively be the section of a document for which a page or paragraph number is not a suitable choice, a timestamp for videos or audiobooks, or a slide number in a PowerPoint presentation. Some examples include the following:

p. 65
para. 3-4
Chapter 7
Table 2
2:54
See APA 7, Section 8.13 for more information and examples.

Citations in your paper are necessary to provide credit to the proper sources; failure to cite properly could result in plagiarism.

Although it is important to cite any ideas retrieved from sources, such as paraphrased explanations, quotations, statistics, or figures. It is not necessary to cite common knowledge (i.e., you do not need to cite that the Earth is round). Credit a source in each sentence that references material from a source. For examples of how often to cite a source in a paragraph, see some examples on the Citing Sources Properly page.

APA style citations are all in-text citations, meaning the information about the source appears in the body of the paper rather than in endnotes or footnotes.

How to Cite

Here is an example of citations within a paragraph:

True and Noble (2009) found many students are highly confused about citation. They also indicated some students receive erroneous information about citations or some professors are too lenient with them, causing even more confusion. In fact, Jones (2011) found 99 out of 100 students agreed citing work could seem like a "complex, maddening process" (p. 64).
In this example, note five main elements:

Sources are cited narratively or parenthetically in each sentence in which they are used. The author and date citation can be left out, however, in contiguous following sentences that further explain the same source as long as the sentences clearly signal that the same source is being discussed.

Parenthetical citations appear within the ending punctuation of a sentence.
Publication years appear after the authors.
Quotation page numbers appear after the quotation. Note that the page number is represented as p. 64, and a paragraph would be represented as para. 4. If a quotation spans multiple pages, use pp.
The full word "and" is used for citations in the narrative, and the ampersand symbol (&) is used for parenthetical citations.

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