Achievement3 by salifumohammed Task:Content Etiquette.

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism can be defined as the representation of another authors language, thoughts,ideas or expressions as one's own original work.In educational context,there are differing definitions of plagiarism, depending on the situation.It can be considered a violation of academic integrity and a breach of journalistic ethics.
Generally, plagiarism is not in itself a crime, but like counterfeiting fraud can be punished in a court for prejudices caused by copyright or torts.In academia and industry,it is a serious ethical offense.Some countries,such as India and Poland , considered plagiarism to be a crime, and there have been cases of people being imprisoned for plagiarizing.

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TYPES OF PLAGIARISM

All types of plagiarism involve using someone else’s words or ideas without proper citation. That can mean copying a whole text, copying just a snippet, or rephrasing an idea.

Plagiarism is the most discussed topic in this century. Before you can get to know more about plagiarism,there is a need for one to know the forms/types of plagiarism. The following are some of the types of plagiarism that I learned.

Global plagiarism
Self plagiarism
Paraphrasing plagiarism

1. GLOBAL PLAGIARISM:This means plagiarizing an entire text by someone and passing it out as your own. Global plagiarism entails taking someone's entire work with an attempt of passing it off as your own work. Global plagiarism is an offense that everybody should avoid from it.
   The following are some considered Global plagiarism in pictures, music and videos.

2. If someone copy a picture and use it in his/her work without showing credit to the owner,you are engaging in counterfeiting.

2.If someone's music is totally or partially similar to or identical to public publishing music.

3.Plagiarism can be describe as reproducing any painting with similar set-up or utterly similar thought.

1. Taking a video cut with safe music playing behind the scenes is an example of literally theft.

For example, if you ask someone to write an essay, article, speech or assignment for you, and you submit it as your own.
Because it involves deliberately and directly lying about the authorship of a work, this is one of the most serious types of plagiarism, and it can have severe consequences.

2.Self plagiarism:It is a type of plagiarism means reusing work that you have already published.It can also involve submitting an entire paper work that you have already submitted before, copying some passages from a work you have already presented or recollection of old data.It is not good because,it can mislead readers,by submitting old task as completely original and new.This form of plagiarism is uncaring and doesn't attract much punishment,but it should be discouraged at all.

3 Paraphrasing plagiarism:It simply means, rephrasing a piece of a text in your own words.It is most common type of plagiarism.
Paraphrasing on itself is not a plagiarism.However, it's becomes plagiarism read a text from a particular source and then rewrite it s points as if the points were your own.If you translate a text to another language without citations,it is a type of Paraphrasing plagiarism.

        How to check Plagiarism.

It is very important to be checking works by people to get to know whether they are plagiarized or not. And it is also important to know where and how to check Plagiarism.
There are a lot plagiarism tools that can be used to check Plagiarism online. There two ways one can check of plagiarism, and these are Free or via paid.

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These are the features of the free way of checking plagiarism online. It differentiate between original work and plagiarized work.

The via paid one has to be download before, and one can get app on Google play store or apps store.

         How to site a source of one's work.

It is necessary to always use copyright free images. And it can be done visiting those sites to search for your choice of work. It is advisable that one should always copy the link to any copyright free images attached to that image.
It is known to me that STEEMIT doesn't encourages plagiarism.

"I have read and understood the steemit Etiquette on steemit community and will do my best to embrace them". Thank you.