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RE: Chinue Achebe's 'things fall apart' makes 12 greatest Books Ever Written list

in #literature7 years ago (edited)

Jayne Augoye Copying and pasting the whole of someone's else's text the way it is, is called plagiarism. And you could be penalized.This is plagiarized work, @femseen. It belongs to

It is not enough to quote the source below. You are not a reporter. Even reporters don't just copy and paste. You should be creating your own content.

Plagiarism is unacceptable. Lets assume you did not know about it. But now you do. A repeat of the same, i am afraid will be penalized by some very concerned members of the community. They could downvote you and that would negatively affect your account.

Otherwise, i see you are new, and have only made 14 days. let me take the pleasure to still welcome you.

Steem responsibly.

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I actually saw this post in a forum called nairaland, then I copied and pasted the source code of only the site seen there. I thought I read from the steemit rules that one can copy paste any news and add the source code to it.

Not true. That is why that @cheetah bot keeps commenting on your posts. I left some guideline in one of your posts, check it out and see.

The little i can quickly remember is that it is okay to quote other sources, especially if you credit them, but even then, at least 50% of the writing should be yours, original.

I will try and look up some good posts on how to use other people's works. And get them to you.