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### Introduction

Hello everyone it is nice to be with this great family of information and education, today is a good day for me as I am going to share with you rules and regulations of steemit in this ACHIEVEMENT3,

## What is plagiarism

Plagiarism is pretending to be Whom we are not or stealing some one Idea without giving him credit so it is very bad and steemit do not like it.

### Types of plagiarism

* Self plagiarism: this is when you rewrite an article you have written before, presenting it as if is a new article or repeating of sentences in an article. * Direct plagiarism: when you copy what another person have written without giving credit to the original author is direct plagiarism. * Mosaic plagiarism: we call this one unintentional but it can be avoided by properly source it , when ever we would someone or take part of someone text we need to cite it.

### How to avoid plagiarism

* Since plagiarism is stealing another person idea, it will be easy to avoid it if we are hard-working in learning and making research, if we are able to write original contest that what we know, this will help us to avoid plagiarism. * Another way to avoid plagiarism is by being creative, creativity is original work from the brain. * Also it is important to ask questions to understand things we don't know and always check our work using plagiarism checker to sure that our work or article is free from plagiarism.

### What is citation

It means to give honor to the original author, it helps your readers to get more knowledge of what you are saying as many will like to know about the original author.

### How to cite a text

When citing a text, 3 things is very very important, the name of the author, the name of the object and the place, you can use the first name or the last name or the topic with that you will get what you want.

### Example of citation

Now I will cite a book written by Eric Wore, what I need to do is to type his name or the name of the book, very simple >7 steps to become a network marketing profession by Eric Wore [text cited](https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwi2xKSz2IH2AhWZ91EKHVTLD8EYABAAGgJ3cw&ae=2&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESWuD2DjRSL9p_z4k5cW0xrzMi2ZJKXaOaUs_Cehm12J7z7XEnX-_rGtFsbv_mufu1UFs6GZZzg5S1bwJugYoHqRqRQcCGG8htzPCk6GwHLKhyZwnvw_boCPTCSg&sig=AOD64_13LKG-Ldj7x2CI31jzpP5NiSvIjg&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwiNqJyz2IH2AhUu4YUKHUY3ANsQ0Qx6BAgEEAE)

## conclusion

>I have read and understand steemit content etiquette on steemit platform, I will do my best to abide by it [My achievement1](https://steemit.com/hive-172186/@franko3/my-introdoction-to-steemit-mentored-by-cryptokannon-assisited-by-ijelady)

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