ACHIEVEMENT 3: CONTENT ETIQUETTE

Greetings to you all my friends, I'm very much excited that I'm making progress, having been able to do the introduction post and knowing the basic security in steem, I'm now proceeding to Achievement 3 which has to do with the Content Etiquette (Plagiarism).

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Since we will be doing alot of writing and posting here, it is advisable to know the consequences for copying other people's work even when it’s not done deliberately so it’s important to keep track of the sources and cite them correctly

Meaning of plagiarism

Plagiarism means presenting someone else’s work as our own. It involves using words, ideas, writeups or information from a source without citing the source.

If an idea is expressed without mentioning the source, or paste a passage of text without properly quoting it, that means we're taking credit for someone else’s work, even if we didn’t deliberately use it to mislead our readers. This desn’t mean we can’t use other researchers’ ideas because building on others’ work is a path way to academic writing but it’s important to clearly distinguish our own words and ideas from those of our sources.

Types of plagiarism

Plagiarism are in various forms. It can involve reusing an entire document, rewriting a single paragraph, or pasting phrases or sentences without citing the source or the owners. The common types of plagiarism which we are fun of are as follows:

Copy-and-paste plagiarism
Copy-and-paste plagiarism also known as direct plagiarism, means to copy a passage from a source directly without citing the source. The rule is if we want to use someone else’s words as it is, then we should quote the source and cite it correctly.

Mosaic plagiarism
Mosaic plagiarism means using various phrases, passages and ideas from different sources to create a kind a patchwork of another person's work, without citing the owner or the source of the work, yes the outcome may look totally new but the words and ideas are not new.

Self-plagiarism
Self-plagiarism means reusing parts or whole of our own previous work for example recopying the same paper to a different class or recycling a set of data without acknowledging it. Self-plagiarizing is bad because our readers expect the work to be new and original.

Global plagiarism
Global plagiarism means copying an entire work written by someone else. This can also include having someone else to help write our paper for us or buying an essay from the internet which is considered as the most severe form of plagiarism, because it is not our work making us directly lying about the ownership of the work. In other words it is stealing.

Avoiding plagiarism

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There are three simple rules that is advisable to follow to avoid plagiarism:

Firstly, it is advisable to use a quotation when we include an exact phrase, sentence or passage from another source.

Secondly, to avoid plagiarism, we should try as much as possible to paraphrase or summarize it entirely in our own words when we want to express an idea or information from another source.

thirdly, citing the source when we quote, paraphrase, or summarize is very important.

This way, we'll be able to conquer plagiarism because we won't be directly copying someone else's work and taking credit for it.

"I have read and understood the Steemit Etiquette on Steemit Community and will do my best to embrace them."