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What is Plagiarism and How to Avoid Plagiarism in Your Blog post
The word plagiarism is very common these days and is derived
from the Latin word “Kidnapper”. Plagiarism is stealing someone else’s work,
word or content and publishing on your name as your own. It is pretending that
the ideas and concept belongs to you rather than giving credit to the one who
deserves it.
Plagiarism is unethical and morally incorrect. If you are running
a blogpost and your content is plagiarized, search engine can terminate your
blogpost or website.
Direct Plagiarism
This is the most common type of plagiarism
where you copy content from internet without any citation or credit. If most of
your content is same or copied, it can put you in copyright violation. It is a
direct plagiarism and results in criminal charges as well.
Paraphrasing
This type or plagiarism is quite strategic.
You read content from somewhere, note down some key points, change the words
and represent them as yours. In this case if the majority of your blogpost is
similar it can put you in trouble. However, as I said it is strategic it
depends on your rephrasing.
In terms of writing whitepaper and conferences there are
multiple more types of plagiarism and leading to any of them can harm you in a
way or another.
Plagiarism is an emerging problem and search engines have
very strong algorithmic tools to check if your content is plagiarized. This also
decreases the rank of your blogpost and Google has rights to block your website
any moment.
Read as much as you can. Do a complete research
on your topic and keep things in your mind. Once you read a lot about a topic
you can think of something at least in your own terms. So explore in terms of
gathering information and do not limit yourself.
Keep track of the research resources. If you
have read something which totally belongs to someone and you need to use that
it is always better to give them a credit by including a link to their page or
mention names.
Quote the content which you have copied from
another website and create a link of that website on your blogpost.
Once you have created your blog, before posting check various
plagiarism tool which are available on Google for free.
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Copyscape
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Small Seo tools
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Worldessays plagiarism checker
- Grammarly
These tools have strong algorithm to check
if the content is plagiarized and shows which part of your blogpost is copied
which you can modify if there is any. Good luck.
