Duplicate Content and Profanity
Good Morning all the following is a response to a writer who left a message in my in-box. She sent the letter after getting a few of her articles were refused publication by Triond for duplicate content and for using profanity in some of her articles. With this in-mind I thought I would write a short article giving a little bit of advice on how to avoid this.
Duplicate content.
Most of us at one time have had one of our articles returned to us for revision, although at first this can be slightly irritating most times it is for a good reason. With so many articles out there in Internet space it can be very easy to publish an article and then find out that there is one very similar out there. A while back I published an article on the Kings Shilling, written in my own words an article telling the story of the Press Gangs in England during the last century, roaming the country forcing young men into the Royal Navy. Quite proud of the article I was a bit shocked when it was returned because of duplicate content. It was only when I Googled it I found that there were a great many articles on-line all titled “The Kings Shilling” and after reading some of them I was amazed to find out that they were all very similar. It became apparent that there was really only one way you could write this story, in other words Triond was justified in declining the article. Once this was understood I went back to the article re-edited and changed the title slightly and re-submitted it was approved immediately. Since then I always Google a title of an article before submitting and this seems to help.
Copying.
There are times when writing an article you do require to copy certain information (especially scientific) This is completely acceptable as long as you give credit to the organization you are using, not just at the end but within the actual body of the article. You can of-course send them an email requesting written authorization. When you have your authorization it is also wise to include this in you article by writing in italics. Example below.
My thanks to Wikipedia for the information below.
“ The cat sat on the mat and he had a great looking Hat.”
The above procedure will insure you are not viewed as committing plagiarism. Also always remember if you have read one of your fellow writers articles and some of the information in it applies to your own article, send him or her a message asking them permission to include a small piece of it within your own article. If you get there written OK make sure they give full credit as shown above.
Another way you can hit problems is if you see, or hear a specific headline on the National News and use it word for word. You have to write around this headline and you also have to do the same for the actual body of the story making it into your own words (your own story). Once again you should give credit to your actual source at the end of the article or within the body.
Check spelling:
Always use the Triond online spell checker, this is important as your article will be declined if there are to many spelling mistakes in it. Some of your articles will have words in it that the spell checker does not have within its library, so will see these words as spelling mistakes. Just use the spell checker and add the words it does not have into the dictionary. You will be helping other writers.
Profanity:
This is a simple one “Profanity” in any form does not belong in poetry or articles. If you cannot describe yourself without using Profanity then don’t write the article.
I hope this helps the young Lady who sent me the message and I am sure others from the wonderful community of Triond has other ways to safeguard there articles. Happy Writing
stevetheblogger
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Tags: article writing, Plagiarism, profanity, Spell checker, triond, wikipedia
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August 5th, 2012 at 9:31 am
excellent articles esp for the beginners. thanks for the great share Steve!
August 5th, 2012 at 9:43 am
helpful
August 5th, 2012 at 9:52 am
Great share. Thank you.
August 5th, 2012 at 9:54 am
Thanks.
August 5th, 2012 at 11:02 am
Thank you for taking the time to provide a most adequate and specific clarification to all of these aspects. I am sure many will benefit from your article!
August 5th, 2012 at 11:08 am
You have a good point here. Many writers do not spend time refining their content to provide it a new perspective and fall easy prey to plagiarism. It always surprises me how good writers are talented to turn a piece of information into a wonderful article by improvising their article with the excellent writing skills they obtained from years of experience.
August 5th, 2012 at 11:09 am
Great advice…good article! Thanks:)
August 5th, 2012 at 11:14 am
Wonderful post.
August 5th, 2012 at 11:47 am
Thank you so much for this wonderful set of guidelines.
August 5th, 2012 at 11:50 am
Good advice Steve
August 5th, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Very good article Steve.
August 5th, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Great advice for new writers. Checking the Internet for similar stories when you get your article idea even before you write it should be a rutine practice. I would also add that even better than using ideas of others and crediting them for it is finding your own unique angle on the story.
August 5th, 2012 at 4:32 pm
On the other hand, I would have enjoyed seeing your article. Perhaps everyone in the UK knows all about the King’s Shilling, but I’ve never heard of it. (Now that I Google it, I’m not surprised. My ancestors chose option B, transportation.) Don’t give up; you’ve already done some research. Re-write the article as a short story.
August 5th, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Steve thank you for pointing out this valuable information, you are a wise informant thanks i am sure it will help many.
August 5th, 2012 at 8:30 pm
This really is helpful, Steve. Many thanks.
August 6th, 2012 at 12:58 am
very helpful so many thanks
August 6th, 2012 at 5:05 am
Since Triond is pretty much automatic, it’s a game of outwitting the software algorithm that runs through your submission.
August 7th, 2012 at 7:14 am
I had one very dark humour piece on alcoholics declined due to ‘lack of content/too short’ or something or other so went and kicked hell up in the GetSatisfaction corner and that worked. Why they’d declined it was largely because they didn’t like the content although it was not profane so by irritating Nathan enough I got it through! Another that took a long time to go through which I realised was due to the fact that I had the same moderately mild profanity in the summary as in the main articles first paragraph. Once I removed it from the summary it went through no problems. I don’t swear often so if I do it’s because I’m ranting and it will tend to be very mild in an article – I think that was on the joys of driving in Birmingham after one heck of a drive into work.
August 8th, 2012 at 6:16 am
“Always use the Triond online spell checker, this is important as your article will be declined if there are to many spelling mistakes in it.”
Using a spell checker is helpful, but not foolproof, as ironically evidenced by the above quote from the article. You must still execute a “human” spell check, word for word. Find the error–it’s pretty easy to spot.
If I had written the latter paragraph as follows, a spell checker would be okay with the result.
“Using a spell checker is helpful, butt not foolproof, as ironically evidenced buy the above quote from the article. Ewe must stull execute a “humane” spell check, word four word. Find the error–its pretty easy two spot.”
Yikes!
You have to make sure to get the correct word as a spell checker will give you a “pass,” even if you meant to use something different.
These words can produce spell checking nightmares, to name a few:
there … their … they’re
boy … bouy
its … it’s
to … too … two
where … wear … ware
would … wood
be … bee
August 8th, 2012 at 6:23 am
Correction to my last post: I forgot to add an important step: double-check and even triple check your work, or in this case, my work.
I misspelled the word “still.” I typed: stull.
Apparantly, I need to practice what I preach.
To remedy this problem, add a third device.
1) spell checker
2) human author checker
3) editor!
August 8th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
This is a great helpful article but the online editor and spell checker do not work for me I don’t know if it is my problem or theirs, but I usually have no problems submitting, but I do have a problem with fixing an article, they rarely fix my although they tell me it has been submitted and is pending.
Hope all is well God Bless
August 10th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Great advice. I’d never thought of googling a title before.
August 11th, 2012 at 11:15 am
you are really genius
September 3rd, 2012 at 9:18 am
Yep I’ve had the same happening to me a couple of times, I’ve never thought to go back through it and re-submit it though. A very good article for poeple just starting out on Triond. Thanks for sharing.