Achievement 3 by @isaacbeechan10: Content Etiquette

PROOF OF BRAIN CONCEPT

The Steemit community is a platform that gives people the opportunity to create quality and original content that can be accessed easily by the public. Users create these contents and are given a fee-less token called STEEM. The STEEM currency can be earned by a system called Proof of Brain which means they have to use their brains to create quality and original contents.

The proof of Brain concept makes sure every content is strictly original and every copied work, photo or text is properly cited. Any writing or image gotten from any source without due credit or citation is called a plagiarized work.

WHAT IS PLAGIARISM?

In simple terms, plagiarism is the act of copying and pasting someone else's work, idea, image or text without giving the actual author credit. In simplest terms, it is claiming a creative work done by someone else as yours. Plagiarism may be intentional or unintentional.

An intentional plagiarism is consciously copying another person's work and claiming it as yours, knowing fully well that it is theft.
An unintentional plagiarism involves using another person's work without actually knowing that it is called theft. It can also be referred to as accidental plagiarism.

WHAT COULD BE CONSIDERED AS PLAGIARISM?

Plagiarism can take different forms. Plagiarism could be:

1. Copying another person's work and intentionally or unintentionally refusing to cite the source.
2. Copying another person's work word for word.
3. Copying and pasting an image without giving credit to the source.
4. Omitting quotation marks after copying someone else's text or quote.
5. Paraphrasing content from a source without citation.
6. Creating a content and depending totally on citations instead of original work. In other words, using too many citations but little or no original work.

HOW CAN YOU AVOID PLAGIARISM?

It's quite simple! There are easy steps one could take to avoid plagiarism.

One way to avoid plagiarism is to do proper citations. This simply means including the source of your text or image at the end of it. I'll give an example:

Source

Another way is to include references. It is important to give references at the end of your work. For example:

Reference
A love for children

Lastly, you can easily avoid plagiarism by using quotes. You can use quote whenever you copy someone else's text. For example:

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe" - Albert Einstein
Source

POINTS TO NOTE

In as much as it is important to apply all these steps in order to avoid plagiarism, it is equally important to avoid overusing them. Over-dependence on citation or quoting should be avoided. Instead, aim at producing one hundred percent original work, if possible. Focusing on just quoting and citation instead of original work may also be seen as plagiarism. Be creative.

Most users try to find non-English language posts, translate it and paste it just as it is and then take credit for it. Some say it is being smart but this is still plagiarism.

Finally, you can get quality images for your article from these sites:

1. https://www.istockphoto.com/
2. https://www.pexels.com/
3. https://pixabay.com/images/search/link/
4. https://unsplash.com/

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