ACHIEVEMENT 3/STEEMIT CONTENT ETIQUETTE/PLAGIARISM DONE BY @IZCO-BOSCO

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Hello everyone I bring you greetings in the name of Jesus. The focus of my achievement 3 post is on the concept of plagiarism, it's types, consequences and how it can be avoid as regards to content etiquette.
DEFINITION OF PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism can be defined as presenting someone else's work or idea as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement. According to Oxford English Dictionary, plagiarism means an act of plagiarizing something. In this definition, to plagiarize means to copy persons ideas,work or words and pretend that they are your own. When it comes to plagiarism, many people tend to think of it as duplicating another person's original idea. Which lightens the seriousness of the offense.
Types of plagiarism
The following are the types of Plagiarism. They are;
COMPLETE PLAGIARISM; as the name implies,this type of plagiarism occurs when someone is presenting entire paperwork as his or her own without proper citation of the originator.
SELF PLAGIARISM;This occurs when a person submits his or her own previous work or a mixture of past assignment without permission from the professor involved.
PATCH PLAGIARISM; This is also called ''Mosaic plagiarism''. It occurs when one borrows phrases from a source without using quotation marks or the person finds synonyms for the author's language but keeps the same general structure and meaning of the content.
ACCIDENTAL PLAGIARISM; Such situation happens when a person neglects to cite their sources,or misquote them. Unintentional paraphrasing or grouping of words that match some other source may also fall under this. Cases of accidental plagiarism are taken seriously as other types of plagiarism.
CONSEQUENCES OF PLAGIARISM
As plagiarism is considered an offense, it's fallouts are not positive for the person.
1). Destroyed reputation of the individual.
2). Destroyed reputation of academic intuition.
3). Failure in the particular assignment.
4). Reward of low grades in the assignment.
5). Financial compensation for the original writer.
HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM
By following the simple suggestions,one can easily avoid plagiarism and it's negative consequences listed above.
1). A person can improve his/her learning of different citation styles. Plagiarism CHECK X has also help by providing a page of referencing guide.
2). A simple acknowledgement that certain material has been borrowed from the said source can keep this normal.
3). Streamline your copied work to few source to avoid mix-up when citing.
4). Develop the discipline of being original in any of your content.
In conclusion, having read and understood the steemit content Etiquette on Steemit community and I promise to do my best to embrace them. Thanks for your time.
Izco-bosco.