Plagiarism is presenting the words, ideas, images, sounds, or the creative expression of others as your own else can be defined as the piece of work copied entirely from one or more sources.
Plagiarism in most can be avoided using the steps below:
- Authors retain Copy Rights
- Attribute references
- Describing all sources of information
- Giving acknowledgments
- Providing footnotes
- Using quotation marks wherever required
- Paraphrasing the original, attributed work
- For extensive quotations, obtain permission from the publisher of the original work
- Avoiding self-plagiarism by taking permission from the publisher of the previous article authored by you Obtaining permission for use of published drawings or other illustrations
