PSA: Understanding Plagiarism

prophetiesdemerlin 25 days ago

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by prophetiesdemerlin

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Plagiarism happens when someone takes someone else’s words, ideas or work and presents them as their own without giving proper credit. It doesn’t matter if it’s a few sentences, a whole article or just a simple phrase; if it came from someone else and you didn’t clearly show that, it’s considered plagiarism.

In schools, jobs and publishing, this is taken very seriously because it’s a form of dishonesty and intellectual theft.

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Why a Link at the Bottom Isn’t Enough

Many people think that if they copy a block of text from a website and then paste a link at the bottom of their post that makes it okay.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t.

Just pasting a link doesn’t tell readers which words were copied and it still gives the impression that you wrote the content.

To avoid plagiarism, you have to clearly show what was quoted (usually with quotation marks or formatting) and cite the source in a proper way, explaining where the quote starts, who wrote it and where it came from.

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How to Do It the Right Way

If you want to use someone else’s words, the safest way is to either put the quote in quotation marks and say who wrote it or paraphrase the idea in your own words and still give credit.

For example, “According to so and so on sample site . com, early civilizations often developed near rivers or oceans.”

That way, you’re being clear about where the idea came from.

Being extremely clear and citing sources appropriately not only helps you avoid plagiarism, it shows respect for the original author and helps your audience trust what you’re saying could be true.

To avoid plagiarism of any kind, simply always keep in mind that the majority of any blog or wiki should always be written in the words of the blog or wikis author and any copy and pasted text should always be in quotation marks with a direct reference to who originally wrote what was quoted.

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Image Sources

https://wpdevart.com/wp-content/s/2020/04/Plagiarism.jpg

https://technofaq.org/posts/2018/12/discover-top-5-free-tools-for-plagiarism-detection/

https://billionairediscipline.com/digital-plagiarism-how-to-fix-it/

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Purrly

I forgot to give myself credit for using my quotes :+1: :joy: anyways yes plagiarism is a serious thing and especially in professional environments such as schools, universities, businesses, and a lot of industries such as entertainment industry and marketing and advertising etc. it happens far more than it should I’ve been a victim of someone plagiarism on my words before it’s not right but it happens far more than it should. If credit for something is due than give it. Best thing you should do is not copy someone else’s work and if you do paraphrasing is always a good way of getting your own style to add on to someone else’s work. But make sure you tell that you took from it

2 Reply 23 days ago

prophetiesdemerlin Author

100% and I feel ya on someone else taking your work and not giving you credit… it’s happened to me as well …

This has lead me to becoming more and more familiar with copyright law as well as the copyright office lol

I copyright pretty much anything that matters to me that I write these days… certainly if it’s a creative project: script, book, art etc … even story notes can be protected….

So you don’t necessarily have to have a finished book to copyright a fleshed out outline and notes - and they will even let you keep adding to it until it’s finished.

Thanks for the comment my friend! :relieved: :pray:

0 Reply 4 days ago

Chad4Horror

Thanks mom hahaha kidding

1 Reply 23 days ago

prophetiesdemerlin Author

:satisfied: You’d be surprised how many people still think you can copy and paste text from someone else’s article and just throw a link at the bottom and think that’s legal and ok when it’s not ..

I just want Amino to thrive for many years to come - part of that requires original, well written content… preferably that’s not breaking copyright law lol.

Part of my job on Leader Amino is to help younger and or newer and or agents just starting out, better understand these issues and how to Amino most correctly, if that makes sense… because so many just don’t know - until they do.

“The more you know”, ya know? 🤓 :joy: