Avoiding Plagiarism at JHU
Some helpful tips and guidance on how to avoid plagiarism in your work.
Johns Hopkins Medicine Office Templates
Johns Hopkins University takes their branding seriously. These office templates can be used to write documents, presentations, etc.
JHU ReVision
ReVision offers free, confidential editing services to the JHU research community for manuscripts, grant applications, personal statements, and more. This service is not available for any projects that will be graded or assessed (including dissertations and thesis proposals).
Office of Faculty Development (OFD) Courses
The JHU’s SOM’s Office of Faculty Development creates and delivers effects programs that develop and nurture diverse faculty as leaders in clinical care, medical education, and research excellence. Explore their catalog of course offerings, register for classes in their calendar, or watch previous course offerings in their video library.
Professional Development Office (PDO) Events
This website offers a wide scope of course offerings that range from writing a professional resume to helping you with your academic job search.
Writing Accountability Groups (WAGs)
A WAG is an active writing group that meets once a week over a 10-week block and follows a strict agenda of 15 minutes of updates and goal-setting followed by 30 minutes of individual writing, and then 15 minutes of reporting and wrap-up (there is no peer review of your writing – the WAG is focused on developing a process and habit of writing). A WAG is limited to 4-8 members and you MUST commit to attending at least 7 of the 10 weekly sessions. There are over 50 WAGs at JHU and anyone including students, trainees, post-docs, and faculty at all levels can join!
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TurnItIn |
Institutional license only |
For faculty to check originality and quality of content. |
https://canvas.jhu.edu/faculty-resources/third-party-tools/turnitin/ |
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Dupli Checker |
Free |
Dupli Checker detects plagiarism from your text accurately. Cut and paste content into the text box or upload your document and press “Check Plagiarism”. The results will give you a percentage of “unique content” and “plagiarized content”.
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Dustball |
Free copy and paste; $8/month for up to 50 uploads |
Copy and paste (free) or upload (with subscription). Gives location of plagiarism and links to check original sources. |
http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/
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Grammerly Plagiarism Checker |
Free, but must create account for detailed results like location of error |
Grammarly’s grammar and plagiarism checker scans your text for plagiarized content and grammatical errors.
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Plagiarisma |
Free |
Plagiarisma has a search box as well as a software download available for Windows. Users can also search for entire URLs and files in HTML, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, ODT and PDF formats.
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Plagiarism Detector |
Free |
Copy and paste your text into the text box to run the scan for plagiarism. |
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Paper Rater |
Free |
Paper Rater offers three tools: Grammar Checking, Plagiarism Detection and Writing. It is a free resource that is developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. |
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Quetext |
Free |
Quetext is a leading plagiarism-detection software, providing services to over 2 million teachers, students, and professionals worldwide. |
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Viper |
Free |
Viper is a fast plagiarism detection tools with the ability to scan your document through more than 10 billion resources, such as academic essays and other online sources, offering side-by-side comparisons for plagiarism. Just keep in mind that it requires a download. Just note that Viper is available to Microsoft Windows users only.
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AMA Manual of Style
This is a must-have guide for anyone involved in medical and scientific publishing. It provides everything you need to produce well-organized and clear manuscripts.
APA Style CENTRAL
You can select of one of their paper templates to help you write in APA style.
Bloomberg School of Public Health Editorial Style Guide
These are a set of guidelines that draw from the current editions of the AP Stylebook and from guidelines compiled by editors in the Office of Communications at JHU.
Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
This is a book that helps authors in compiling lists of references for their publications.
Johns Hopkins University Style Guide
These guidelines were compiled by editors in the Office of Communications to encourage consistency and correct usage of terms across the many publications produced by JHU offices. The guidelines draw from the 56th edition of The Associated Press Stylebook and the 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Written from a Johns Hopkins point of view, the guidelines are intended to complement AP and CMOS and, when those sources disagree, to choose between them.
EQUATOR Network
This website contains reporting guidelines for study types below:
National Library of Medicine
This website contains a chart that lists the major biomedical research reporting guidelines that provide advice for reporting research methods and findings. The charts also includes editorial style guides for writing research reports or other publications.
An Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETD) is a requirement for graduation from Doctoral programs and available to graduates from Masters programs. Please refer to The Sheridan Libraries ELECTRONIC THESES & DISSERTATIONS (ETDS) page for answers to the following:
How and when do I submit my ETD?
