Care with your Posts

I have indicated on a previous entry that there are practically no boundaries with regards to what you can post on your blog.  Indeed, a person’s imagination can be the only limit.  But that has to be taken in context with the basic rules on publishing.

My profession is far from being a professional writer.  As I have confessed, not even a single article that I have written have seen the limelight of published works.  I am only speaking based on the rules I know with regards to writing an article especially as in the case of a blog.  One important rule to consider is to not copy a writing of another and post it as your own.  That would simply be plagiarism.  If there may have to be a need to copy an entry or post, a blogger has to be sure that this be identified as so.  This may even have to go to such means as asking express permission from the source that the published work be copied in full or in part.  But beyond the technical requisites or binds of plagiarism, it simply conveys the message of respect.

There may be a time when we unintentionally copy an entry verbatim, without giving due acknowledgement to the author of that entry, and that could be a probable future headache.  Though there has not been much a written rule on blogging, but still the basics of publishing rules should be adhered to.  This, at the very least, shows civility to blogging, and at most - respect to fellow bloggers.

 

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