What is Plagiarism?

The word plagiarism came from the Latin word 'plagiarius', which means to kidnap. As the 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".^Source

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From the above definition, one could say that Plagiarism is the stealing of another person's ideas or work and passing it off as your own original work, this is very bad.

For me I see it as trying to get rich or famous off another person's labour.

Types of Plagiarism:

There are different kinds of plagiarism, which includes:

1. Direct Plagiarism
2. Self Plagiarism
3. Mosaic Plagiarism
4. Accidental Plagiarism

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Disadvantages of Plagiarism:

Plagiarism has no known advantage but lots and lots of disadvatages which I will be mentioning a few here:

1. It makes you loose credence and reputation as a writer.
2. You do not really learn that very item you plagiarised since you just did a copy and paste.
3. You do not give credit to the original work, thereby reducing the traffic the original work should have gotten hence reducing its value.
4. No one will value your future works.
5. Once caught, there could be legal repercussions.

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In conclusion, plagiarism is very bad and we should not only refrain from it but also shun and discourage it by all means possible, not only here on Steemit but in our day to day lives.

Once again I want to appreciate the following Steemians who their works have been of great help both on creating this post and my steemit journey generally:

@steemcurator01
@steemcurator02
@steemcurator03
@trafalgar
@cryptokannon
@cmp2020
@kiwiscanfly

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