Resource Library
Book:The ABCs of Scientific Writing: A Guide for Researchers
...on pitfalls and mistakes that writers should avoid, such as jargon, ambiguity, redundancy, and plagiarism, and provides practical examples of each to practice, and they supplied with an explanation to...
Web resource:5 Free Online Plagiarism Checkers
This blog post outlines what to look for in the best plagiarism checkers and offers pros and cons to five free online plagiarism tools.
Web resource:How to Avoid Plagarism
Web resource:How to Recognize Plagiarism: Tutorials and Tests
New version of tutorial from Indiana University on avoiding plagiarism.
Presentation:Avoiding Plagiarism: A Few Thoughts and Resources
Web resource:"Avoiding Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism, and Other Questionable Writing Practices: A Guide to Ethical Writing"
Article:"Plagiarism: Why is it such a big issue for medical writers?"
...rily for medical writers, also can aid authors in other fields. Includes a section on types of plagiarism and a set of tips for avoiding plagiarism.
Video:Detecting and Preventing Plagiarism
Video blog post by prominent medical editor George Lundberg. Emphasizes the need to avoid plagiarism and identifies some tools for detecting plagiarism.
Presentation:Selected Other Topics
Some basics on the following: (1) literature searching, (2) avoiding plagiarism, (3) quoting and citing, (4) copyrights and patents, (5) writing style, (6) preparing a curriculum vitae, (7) asking for...