ACHIEVEMENT TASK 3: CONTENT ETIQUETTE

It's generally dishonest to meddle with another man's sweat, breath taking effort and mental stress- just to afford a thumbs-up. What's even worse is the undeserved spotlight the person gets to steal. This is the gleaming reality of plagiarism.

SO WHAT THEN IS PLAGIARISM?

Plagiarism is the unauthorized use of a person's work, ideas and language as your own without giving full credit or reference to the original.

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Plagiarism is a jornalistic offence that could occur in different fields especially in academia. It is a copyright violation of an author's or an artist's work. Although this could sometimes be an accident or maybe deliberate, it still stands as an offence. This could breed punishments such loss of reputation, lawsuit, termination of contract etc. The act is seen as a theft that cripples the efforts of the original owner's work. In the paragraphs below, I'll be talking about the types of plagiarism. They are about four types according to Bowdoin, they consist of direct plagiarism, self plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism and accidental plagiarism. Below I'll be giving a brief explanation about these types of plagiarism.

Direct plagiarism:
This the act of transcribing a person's work word-to-word without attributing the work to the person (the original author or artist). This is unethical and can lead to a lawsuit.

Self plagiarism:
This means re-submitting a particular work done by yourself for which has already been accepted on thesame platform or different platforms, without reference to the former.

Mosaic plagiarism:
This is also known as 'patch writing'. It the act of lending a phrase from a source, without using a quotation mark. Or it can also be about using a particular synonym for the authors use of words, while keeping the meaning and the original structure of the work.

Accidental plagiarism:
This happens or occurs when a person misqoutes the main source of a particular work or does not bother to cite his or her source. This can also be an unintentional action of using same phrase of particular source without attribution. This is still taken seriously just like any other plagiarism. The fact that the culprit is naive about this means nothing at all before a law court.

HOW TO CITE A REFRENCE:
We have spent a lot of time discussing about plagiarism and it's types. To an extent, we should know one or two things about plagiarism by now. But how can we avoid plagiarism?
One unique way is my citing the original work. So how do we get to cite a work, quiet easy, you just have to add '>' and give a little space before the sentence. Pretty much easy like I said before right?

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Plagiarism is the representation of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.

Conclusion:

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Plagiarism isn't creativty. It's theft in the niceness of words. It reaps a work of it's uniqueness and encourages lazy artistry. On this platform, plagiarism is taken seriously. There's even a community dedicated to this purpose [@endingplagiarism]. This community ensures originality of a person's work and pure creative artistry. If you in any way suspect a post it plagiarised, you can report to them by tagging @endingplagiarism.

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed it. I'll love to get your reviews, it'll mean a lot. I have read and understood the steemit etiquette on steemit community and will do my best to embrace them.

Written by: @martin-q

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