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Hope everyone are in good health, am good, all thanks to God.

So very happy seeing most of you here active, also praying to be regular here, yes much great full to be here, today I will be discussing on my achievement 3 post which is Etiquette (plagiarism), before I start, I thank @cryptokannon and the adimins in Steemit for the great job done in this community, working towards in bringing out the best.
@cryptokannon for going through my achievement post and successfully verified in it, and guiding me through in these achievement 3 content(Etiquettes).

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what is plagiarism

Plagiarism is the process of taking other people's words and or ideas and pretending that they are yours. It can also be act of using someone's else's work.

Type of plagiarism

Global plagiarism

This means plagiarism an entire text by someone else and posting it as your own.
Example - you get some one else to write for you or you find a text online and post it as your work, you are commiting global plagiarism.

Verbatim or direct plagiarism

This means directly copying someone else's work and posting it as your own work.
Paraphrasing plagiarism
This means plagiarising part of different sources and stitching them together in your new work and posting it as your work.
Example - social study is the study of man and his environment, studying man behavior and knowledge to his surrounding. Then he/ she picks studying man behavior and knowledge to his surrounding and add it to it post as it work.

Self - plagiarism

This means recycling your own previous work and adding it to your new work.
Example - using some of the ideas, phrases or data from your previous work.

Patch work plagiarism ( stitching together sources)

This means copying phrases, passage and ideas from different sources and puting them together to add to your new post.
Plagiarism is a serious form of dishonesty.
And you can also commit plagiarism accidentally, if you fall to cite your source correctly.

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How to avoid plagiarism

When you use words, ideas, or information from a source, you need to properly give details of the author before posting.
You are also advise to used a plagiarism checker to check your work before submitting, to avoid accidentally plagiarism.

cititation

Cite correctly to avoid plagiarism, each time you use ideas or information from a source. Example, in text citation that briefly cites the source.
And also a full evidence that allows readers to find the source for themselves.

conclusion

We all in these great community ( accdemiAlly in morals) should be free from copy and paste, and stop being lazy, stand up firm and work and make this platform community a better fun entertainment to all of us and readers, always use plagiarism checker to check ur work before submitting to avoid accidentally plagiarism.

Recall

I have read and understood the Steemit Etiquette on Steemit community, and will try my best in puting more effort in embracing through them.

Thanks for reading

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