what is content etiquette?

Content etiquette is the standard requiredment of an article before reward can be received by that article on steemit. Steemit is a community that works with the proof of brains which means it gives reward for Idea or thought shared on its platform. We have quite a set of this standard which but one of them is to avoid plagiarism.

What is plagiarism

Plagiarism is the presentation of a stolen idea or write up made by another user and publishing it as a post on your steemit account. Plagiarism deals with any part of a post which includes the words, image and videos within the post. A user can plagiarism intentionally and unintentionally but ignores is not an option as plagiarism can be in many form.

Form of plagiarism

• Presenting of another user ideas as your own
• Coping a part of another person's write and using it in your own post
• Using of another user image without giving the source
• Paraphrase of article or sentence within another article
• Coping part of your own former post to use again

How to avoid plagiarism

• Citing of sources of any content that is not your ideas or images that do not belong to you. Below is an example

A boy is a young male human. The term is usually used for a child or an adolescent. When a male human reaches adulthood, he is described as a man. source

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• Try as much as possible to give content from your own ideas on a topic and create images with them.

• Do not spin article to make your post

• Take time to research on the post.

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