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What is plagiarism?

The word plagiarism has come from the Latin word ‘plagiarius,’ which means to kidnap. As the plagiarism definition suggests,

when someone uses the work of another artist without properly citing the source or giving credit, then that will be an instance of plagiarism. Plagiarism is a punishable offense, and it is a form of intellectual theft.

It is effortless to plagiarise any content or article from the website, but at the same time, it has grave consequences. Plagiarism can affect someone’s career adversely. The student often uses parts of an article in his project without crediting the source, therefore, committing plagiarism. The teachers must warn the students about plagiarism.

If the student is changing the word order or summarising the work or using exact lines from a text without using quotation marks or citing the source, that is not crediting the source correctly, then it will be considered plagiarism.

However, reusing a previous work or parts of it without the professor also comes under plagiarism. It is called self-plagiarism, and if the teacher finds an instance of self-plagiarism, then the student may end up with a poor grade.

Plagiarism is applicable for writing or website articles, but it is also applicable in stealing intellectual property like music, images, videos, and even choreography of a dance.

Plagiarism can fail a piece of work trying to serve its primary purpose. While artwork or writing is considered successful if it reaches the audience, plagiarism takes away the credibility of the work, and the artist or writer’s message fails to reach the audience. Therefore, the students or artists must not plagiarise, neither deliberately nor accidentally.

Types of plagiarism

Considering the pattern, plagiarism can be of different types.
They are:

• Direct Plagiarism
• Mosaic Plagiarism
• Accidental plagiarism
• Self-plagiarism
  Paraphrasing plagiarism
  Self-plagiarism and mosaic plagiarism are the two most common forms .

How to aviode Plagrism

Follow these four steps to ensure your paper is free from plagiarism

• Keep track of the sources you consult in your research.
• Paraphrase or quote from your sources (and add your own ideas).
• Credit the original author in an in-text citation and reference list.
• Use a plagiarism checker before you submit.

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Keep track of your sources

While you’re doing research and taking notes for your paper, make sure to record the source of each piece of information. One way that students commit plagiarism is by simply forgetting where an idea came from and unintentionally presenting it as their own.

Quote and paraphrase

While writing your paper, if you want to share an idea or a piece of information from a source, you must either paraphrase or quote the original text.

Cite the original source

Every time you quote or paraphrase, you must include an in-text citation (or footnote citation) that identifies the original author. It often also includes the publication year and a page number.

Use a plagiarism checker

Most universities use plagiarism checkers to detect plagiarism in student papers. This technology scans your document, compares it to a huge database of publications and websites, and highlights passages that are overly similar to other ***
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