HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM IN STEEMIT by @eliany 10pc to @steeemkidss

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Hello beautiful steemkids and kids lovers it is my pleasure to welcome you all to my blog today and today, I'm going to explain what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.

WHAT IS PLAGIARISM

It is an act of using someone else work as your own without the consent of the person. Plagiarism can also be considered as theft or fraud, yes stealing of people work, ideas or products. Therefore, it is an act that should not be considered by any steemit users.

WAYS YOU CAN PLAGIARIZED

Copying and pasting information from someone
copying quote in your write-up without giving credit to the original owner.
Using another person photos (e.g from internet) without the permission of the owner or acknowledging the owner.
Not properly citing your source

TYPES OF PLAGIARISM

There's are different types of plagiarism let's consider them

DIRECT OR INTENTIONAL; As the name implies, it is an act of copying a direct word to word of a person work without giving credit to the rightful owner.
MOSAIC OR UNINTENTIONAL; In this case, the writer seek the consent of the person he or she is referring to but fail to include quotation mark
SELF PLAGIARISM; This is so common, copying your own writing, your own sayings.
ACCIDENTAL PLAGIARISM; it's happens when you write your own word buy coincidentally another person had that same writings before but whatever the cas, plagiarism is plagiarism.

WHY IT IS NOT ACCEPTED IN STEEMIT

Steemit works on proof of brain concept, which simply means providing or creating your own original quality contents , so this requires your own creative ideas. Therefore, it is prohibited in steemit, more to that, steemit has consequences if you are caught plagiarising in steemit. Also, Steemkids community has its own consequences if you are caught plagiarising in the community, you will be muted.

HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM

It is very important to avoid this act in steemit, there is no way you will hide. To avoid below are some tips

Finish your achievements tasks
Write whatever you are familiar with
Use your own words
Use your own pictures
Properly cite any picture or word that is not your own to show where it comes from.
Also use quotation marks ("") or this (>) in front of the word or sentence to indicate it's not your own.
If you don't understand how to do a particular contest ask your mentor, your mentor was here before you and understand the platform so well.

TOOLS YOU CAN USE TO CHECK FOR PLAGIARISM

By using this tool, https://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/ follow this instructions

Once you click on the link, scroll down, you will see a section to paste your work. You have to paste your work simply by copying it from where you typed it after you might have finish typing.
Check Captcha by clicking it proving that you are not a robot.
After that, click on the button Check Plagiarism and wait for the result.

This way, see below the result to this my post

It's showing green 100% unique

This site will check your text and will show results indicating plagiarized content in red and unique is green.
If there is any plagiarism, the site will take you to the link you copied from.

Other tools that you can used to check for plagiarism.

https://plagiarismdetector.net/

https://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker?utm_medium=content

https://www.duplichecker.com/

FREE IMAGES SITES

https://pixabay.com/

https://www.pexels.com/royalty-free-images/

Pictures from this site is free but you still have to source it by add this below the image using this same bracket, always copy the right link to the image
[source](link of the image)

CONCLUSION

Please endeavour to avoid plagiarism in steemit, try as much as possible to flee from plagiarism. Thank you for going through my post, I believe the information is useful to you.