Achievement 3 by @digitalsam Task : Content etiquette

What is plagiarism? " Simply put, plagiarism is the process of taking other people’s words and/or ideas and pretending that they are your own".Source

As you can see from the above definition, plagiarism can take any form, it could be written, audio, video, graphics and more.

The question is why is plagiarism wrong? It denies credit to whom it's due, in this case the source of the idea or information taken. And none of us will like every other person to make use of our work, without acknowledgement.

So, why do people engage in plagiarism? Well it seems like an easy route to achieve one's aim, but just like we mentioned earlier, it comes with a price.

Plagiarism is seem by many as bad behavior, it can also result in litigations. Some of the phrases use by some people to describe plagiarism, includes "steal" and " acts of fraud", strong words as you can see

It also deprive the culprit the opportunity to make good use of his natural talent, which was referred to by Steemit as "proof of brain"source

It will do us a whole lot of good to do some critical thinking in order to come up with our own ideas. It makes us feel satisfied, looking at what we are able to accomplish. We can then become ourselves the reference point.

However, there will be time when we would like to use other people's works, perhaps to buttress our point, at such time, we should always give credit to our source.
Such demonstrates fairness and good judgement, we avoid being seen as crossing the boundary of content etiquettes.

So, always say no to plagiarism.

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