INTRODUCTION

This post has been drafted to further enlighten our new comers on the need to post genuine and quality contents on blurt.
We have been seeing quite a lot of low quality and plagiarized contents following the larger inflow of new members into the platform.
This discoveries were made during our regular and daily manual curation exercises.

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Any post that does not meet the overall standard and usability of blurt is a low quality post.
Therefore your post is said to be of low quality if it has either of the following attributes and attachments:

Very little text in the main post.

There is need to include an elaborative text on your post which gives your reader the basic and complete understanding of what message you are trying to convey.
We have seen a lot of post where new blurt users post pictures with little or no text to define the real essence of the said photos.Some of this photos despite not being the posters original photos are not sourced.
As a good content creator, It is expedient that you include the camera specifications of the photo you snapped or the source of the images when they don't belong to you.

Incomplete Post

Your post is meant to be complete and concise enough to get the interest of your reader.
Your post should be self explanatory,this way your reader can easily upvote you if the post fits his line of interest.

Factual Errors

Your post should be able to meet the mark of what it is set to achieve.
Avoid factual errors along with poorly explained sections.

In general, If your post does not serve much purpose for your reader and the audience then it is of low quality.

What is Plagiarism?

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Copying of someone's work of art without proper acknowledgement is well known as Plagiarism. It's greatly discouraged when writing be it for academic purposes or for pleasure writing.

When one plagiarize, the integrity of the work is at stake and it's considered inappropriate. Both the writer and the plagiarized work risks loosing credibility and a breach of creative writing is established.

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary describes plagiarism to mean and I quote:

Stealing the ideas or write-ups of another author and posing it off as ones original content. It's an act of literature theft by the plagiarized author.^Source

Types or Kinds of Plagiarism

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There exists various types of plagiarism such as:

• Direct Plagiarism
• Mosaic Plagiarism
• Self-Plagiarism
• Accidental Plagiarism

Direct Plagiarism

The most common type of plagiarism that exists is this direct plagiarism. Here, the author literally copies in full content another person's work without any form of paraphrase and citation. Not a single word or symbol is replaced with the original word.

This is a grievous offense in the literally world and such plagiarist is usually called to order for disciplinary actions to be taken. It's highly unethical and to think that the plagiarist deliberately committed the crime makes it totally unacceptable.

A form of Direct Plagiarism is given below. Source added to the post.

Happiness is an emotional state characterized by feelings of joy, satisfaction, contentment, and fulfillment.^Source

Mosaic Plagiarism

This type of plagiarism comes in form of borrowing certain words from a whole article without directly quoting it or sourcing the quote with the use of a quotation mark or symbol. The writer might not intend to necessarily copy the whole write up but the mistake of borrowing a few phrases without sourcing it makes it a plagiarized content.

Writers usually use this form of plagiarism in a bit to boost their literal work. However there are ways to do it without commiting plagiarism. Whatever information gotten from a source wether paraphrased or copy and paste should be directly and properly sourced by the writer.

Self-Plagiarism

This form of plagiarism is popularized by high schoolers and college students. Tracking this kind of plagiarism is usually difficult when it's handwritten. There is no way to go back and check it out one by one for plagiarism.

Here the student is liable to submit almost the same work twice with a little paraphrasing without proper citation. This is considered as Self-Plagiarism. One good thing that students enjoy in this form of plagiarism is that it doesn't have severe consequences that can affect them academically.

Accidental Plagiarism

This is last of the listed forms of Plagiarism above. Here the plagiarist identifies with a particular phrase or content and doesn't source is properly by maybe misplacing the correct source with the wrong one.

Whatever the intention might be, accidental Plagiarism comes with its own consequences and actions.

Plagiarism Tools

To be on the safe side, it's always good to check using some verified plagiarism tools to check for the authenticity of a work. While some research work gives a percentage allowed for unoriginal content others don't.

These tools are as follows:

• Smallseotools
• Plagiarism Detector
• Grammerly
• Duplichecker
• Search Engine Reports

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