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Plagiarism is the act of stealing someone else ideas or thought and taking them as your own.

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• CITATION

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Citation is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source.

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TYPES OF PLAGIARISM

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• Paraphrasing plagiarism

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Paraphrasing or incremental plagiarism is the common part of plagiarism. It has similar description to the mosiac plagiarism. Though, the difference is that the copied work isn't mixed with new discoveries. When you paraphrase the main idea in your own words or style, the borrowed material stays the same throughout.

• complete plagiarism

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Complete plagiarism: complete plagiarism is more common in academic writing than in content marketing or other types of online writing. This type of writing occurs when someone tries to submit an complete research as their own without contributing to the research.
For example, this means copying and pasting the main/original work in it's exact form. The only thing that is contributed is the authors name.

• self plagiarism

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Self plagiarism: Also known as auto plagiarism, it happens when you copy your own writing, whether knowingly or not. Often the person in a self- plagiarism incident is summarizing their own work instead of writing a new piece from scratch on similar topic.
Many people many think that self plagiarism (auto plagiarism) is harmless because you aren't copying from someone. But, this type of plagiarism can be just as harmful as any other.
For example, If you are writing about something and you are apprehended plagiarizing, you could end up getting banned by Google for copying content.

• Accidental plagiarism

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Accidental plagiarism: plagiarism doesn't always happen purposely. It's still identified as plagiarism when a person copies another writing without knowing their source, just because the omission or incorrect citation was accidental doesn't mean plagiarism has not happened. This is why it's important to monitor any work and when in doubt, give your source good.

• source-based plagiarism

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Source-based plagiarism: This type of plagiarism refers to example when misleading sources are involved. For instance, the writer may have two or more sources of information but only value one. Another example of source- based plagiarism would be when a writer quotes a non-existent or wrong source.

• Copy-paste plagiarism

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Copy-paste plagiarism: Copy-paste plagiarism, also known as Direct plagiarism, is an professional form of stealing another persons writing. As the name says, the writing is copied word for word and pasted into a new work. The writer then tries to give the information as their own. A word or two might be switched,but this type of plagiarism is too suspicious to be identified as paraphrasing.

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HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM IN STEEMIT

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• Avoid stealing and pasting an exact quotations into your own writing.

• Stop properly citing word and start writing from your own thought without plagiarism

• Always make use of quotation marks (" ") to show that such unique word or writing was gotten from someone else idea and its not yours.

• it is very important to create your own ideas. always cite your source when using someone's ideas or language always remember to add citation.

• It is not good because it is a form of theft

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CAUSES OF PLAGIARISM

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• People may not know how to cite the thoughts of others and write the sources of those thoughts properly in their texts.
• There might be many mistakes in learning how to cite others' language or thought into their own work because error is a compulsory part of learning.
• They may not understand how to carefully frame notes during their research.
• People from different cultures may not know the conventions of "governing attribution and plagiarism in American colleges and universities".
• People might be afraid of failure or fear the risks of using your own ideas in their own work.
• Most people may have low time-management skills or they may plan poorly for the time and effort needed for research writing, and have no other option but to plagiarize.
• Sometimes the tools and institutions may fail to report plagiarism when it occur, or may not enforce proper penalties.

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SUMMARY

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Plagiarism is to be avoided because it is very harmful to those in the educational sector, if it will be avoided there will be harmony in learning to be great leaders of your countries.

Have it in mind that it's not difficult to avoid plagiarism.

I have write, read and understood the basic concept of Steemit Etiquette on Steemit Community and will do my best to keep the rules and regulations guiding them.

I really appreciate you all for reading my achievement 3 post.

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Written by: @prince03