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Bloggers Posts Can Shout Plagiarism



Information being readily available in the web can make it easy to copy some other person's ideas. You may do it intentionally or accidentally.

Plagiarism is taken from a Latin word meaning kidnapping. It is when you use someone's idea as your own.

How would you know you need to acknowledge the source? Ask yourself if you knew about that information before you read about it in an article on the web or elsewhere. If no then write the source.

How about common knowledge. Still ask youself would you have known about it without someone tell you.

If you interpret or use your own word based on what your understand about an article and include it in your work is called paraphrasing; paraphrasing is way different from plagiarism. Paraphrasing is not rearranging the sentence or substituting some words with its synonyms.

 About 10 years ago, article spinning was one of the ways to create more content. Write one article and an article spinner makes about 5-10 versions of the same content though word substitution. This is still around 10 years after I first heard about it.

Examples
Free Article Spinner
Spin Bot

And if you want to check plagiarism, there is Copyscape.


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