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With the speeding spread of the Internet, plagiarism is an emerging issue not only for the academic community but also for all educational and training institutions and organizations. However, this issue has not yet been considered comprehensively and seriously in the Society at large. Therefore, in this achievement 3, l would be discussing extensively on plagiarism, disadvantages of plagiarism and ways to avoid it.

WHAT IS PLAGIRISM?

Plagiarism is copying others’ work, even by expressing it using one’s own words without proper citation. In other words, plagiarism means using someone else’s intellectual product as their work. Therefore, it is considered as the theft of intellectual property.

Plagiarism is a theft and can warrant sanction or even imprisonment because it is considered a violation of academic integrity and a breach of journalistic ethics.

TYPES OF PLAGIARISM

Patchwork plagiarism
Paraphrasing plagiarism
Global plagiarism
Self-plagiarism
Verbatim plagiarism

PATCHWORK PLAGIARISM : This is an act of putting together parts of different sources
of information so as to create your own text.

PARAPHRASING PLAGIARISM: This means re-writing someone else's text and making it your own without acknowledging the owner.

GLOBAL PLAGIARISM: This is the process of presenting the totality of another person's work as your own without taking permission from the owner. Global plagiarism can be done online or from a hard copy.

SELF-PLAGIARISM: Self-plagiarism is an act of recycling your own previous work.

VERBATIM PLAGIARISM: This is a direct copying of someone else's work and presenting it as your own.

DISADVANTAGES OF PLAGIARISM:

Plagiarism has so many disadvantages and these ranges from destruction of student's reputation, student's expulsion from school as well as destruction of academic and professional reputation.

WAYS TO AVOID PLAGIARISM

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Plagiarism can actually be avoided and stopped irrespective of whether someone is writing an article, term paper, content for sale or thesis. Below are the following ways to get plagiarism avoided.

CONCEPT OF WORK ORIGINATION

[SOURCE](https://www.nature.com/articles/481021a]

One can avoid plagiarism by being the original author of one own's work. There is nothing so satisfying and fulfilling to understand that your work is devoid of plagiarism and that you are actually the originator of your own work. When the impact of our brain child is positively felt, we are commended and plagiarism is avoided.

RESEARCH AND WRITE YOUR ASSIGNMENT ON TIME:
As a student, you can avoid plagiarism while writing your assignment. Do not procrastinate, start your research on time and gather all the required information needed for the successful writing and completion of your own assignment. Read the information over and over and understand it very well then translate and write it correctly using your own choices of words. That way, your assignment is done correctly and your professor is proud of you as he awards you more marks because it is done without plagiarism.

PROPERLY CITE YOUR SOURCES:
After making references to an already written work, do well to properly and fully acknowledge the author. Once good acknowledgement is done, plagiarism has been avoided.

QUALITY NOTE TAKING:
While reading or in the class, take your own note and develop your own work by yourself. Preparing your own work is a good way of not plagiarizing.

SUMMARY

I consider plagiarism a theft because It cuts across cheating, copyright infringement, stealing, faulty citation imitation and so on. I believe that plagiarism has a well stipulated rule which is taking permission from an author of a book or giving full recognition, citation and acknowledgement to the true owner of an article before publishing it.

In view of the above mentioned fact, plagiarism can be fought and put to a stop if we can embrace creativity and make good use of our God-giving brain and create something unique that we can proudly call our own.

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