Achievement 3 Task| Content Etiquette on Steemit

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Hello most esteemed steemians welcome to my achievement 3 task on content etiquette.
I will like to thank @saxopedia for verifying my achievement 2 task, @ebuahsang1 for introducing me to the platform and @fombae for putting me back on track when I was almost giving up on the platform. With that said I will dive into it.
According to the Cambridge Dictionary plagiarism is the practice of using another person’s ideas or work and pretending that it is your own.(https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/English/plagiarism/)
It is unacceptable and could be tantamount to sanctions from the supervisory body to which the write up is being submitted. Plagiarism violates the rule of creativity and dishonours the original author of the idea in question. On social media platforms platforms plagiarism is very common, since everyone is free to screenshot and repost whatever idea the see and feel as to share without necessarily tagging it original author. Facebook, YouTube and Instagram are trying to curb the rate as no one is allowed to play copyrighted tracks on their video without using a disclaimer, if not the video could be taken down and a warning issued, this is yet to be true of WhatsApp. There are several forms of plagiarism

Types of Plagiarism

According to Scribbr, there are five different ways of doing it of plagiarism namely; global, verbatim, paraphrasing, patchwork and self plagiarism.

1. Global plagiarism
   Which is taking an entire text by someone else and passing it off as one’s own. It is often deliberately done so it is the most serious form of plagiarism and it has serious consequences
2. Verbatim plagiarism
   Also called direct plagiarism, is copying and pasting someone else’s words in our work without acknowledging them or quoting the original source
3. Paraphrasing plagiarism
   This is putting another persons words in our own words without citation, could even be done by translation.
4. Patch Work Plagiarism
   Also called mosaic plagiarism, means copying phrases, passages and ideas from different sources and putting together to create a new text. It could involve slightly rephrasing or using the same words but in all it is plagiarism.
5. Self Plagiarism
   This is reusing work that we previously published. It is inappropriate because credit was already given for the work. It is a very serious form of plagiarism unless it was initially permitted.(https://www.scribbr.com/plagiarism/types-of-plagiarism)

Why is Plagiarism Inappropriate

1. Plagiarism is theft of someone else’s intellectual work which by moral standards is already wrong and violating
2. It encourages laziness in research killing the zeal of creativity and the passion for research

Common Causes of Plagiarism

1. Laziness : the unwillingness to take time to create something original either due to busy schedule and waiting to the last minute when we have to rush and now left only with the possibility of copying others work and efforts
2. Carelessness : the plagiarist may not know about plagiarism and therefore how to avoid it will be unknown to them too besides the consequences because not every internet user is educated
3. Selfishness : People who want to succeed at all cost even at the expense of others, will readily copy and modify others work to make a better version in their name so they can perform better.

The Various Sanctions for Plagiarism

The consequences of plagiarism range from cancellation of work to even prison term and termination of license for Scholars

1. The write up could be cancelled, when the work is cancelled the writer’s license is most likely to be suspended, if it is an end of term essay, the writer will have to redo the work under strict supervision.
2. The writer could pay fines especially when the work was used to generate income the case the YouTubers and artists
3. The plagiarist could be banned especially when it is noticed that has been a recurring factor with that particular person

How to avoid plagiarism

1. To avoid plagiarism we need to make sure to cite and quote every author no matter how little of their work we are going use
2. Also we need to maximize using our own creativity, to think and create too, that way it increases variety of ideas too.

Having read and understood the Steemit guidelines on content protocol, I will do all in my best to respect the rules and practice and encourage creativity in my every article.

"I have read and understood the Steemit Etiquette on Steemit Community and will do my best to embrace them"