Denver Seminary

2024-2025 Student Handbook 45 Requirements for acknowledging sources of academic work should follow the writing manuals for the discipline (APA, Turabian, etc.). Students should pay special attention to their course syllabus and instructor's direction. Further instructions on writing styles can be found at the Writing Center website. For example: • Direct quotations must be placed in quotation marks (" ") or formatted as a block quote. The source of all quotations must be acknowledged through a footnote or parenthetical citation, according to the writing style required by the professor for the course. • Paraphrases or summaries of ideas must be acknowledged in text through footnotes or parenthetical citations according to the writing style requested by your professor. It should also represent an idea in one's own words more pointedly than the source does. • When Turabian style is used, Denver Seminary follows the "notes-bibliography" style for source citations. • Use caution when relying on automatically generated citations from library systems like WMS, EBSCO, or ProQuest as they may contain incomplete or inaccurate information. While these generated citations can serve as helpful starting points, students are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of their citations. • Bibliographies or reference pages should include all sources cited within a paper or report. • Citing one's own previously submitted or published work should only be done if necessary to build on prior work and must follow the above citation requirements. Permission or consent from the professor is required. • A student's research and writing may only utilize large language model artificial intelligence tools to proofread original work, not to generate original work as one's own. • The use of software that predicts and provides quiz and exam answers is prohibited. Process for Academic Integrity Violations For any instance of an academic integrity violation, the faculty member must clearly note in the student's submitted document where the instance occurred. The instructor will then meet with the student to investigate the student's awareness and understanding of proper citing and use practices. In addition, any offense in a course will be reported through The Bridge software which will automatically report the violation to the Academic Dean and Dean of Students. In this communication, the faculty member will describe both the offense and the student's response and provide recommendations for further action. Reporting allows for communication across offices and only necessitates punitive action if called for. One Inadvertent Offense An offense shall be defined as an inadvertent act of plagiarism. If it is determined, based on the available evidence and student's report, that the plagiaristic act was inadvertent, the faculty member will label it as an offense and recommendations may include the following: requiring an assignment to be redone, requiring tutoring from the Writing Center, deducting points or one letter grade with or without rewrite, or assessing a failing grade for the assignment. The student may have only one offense before the following actions will be taken. First Violation A violation shall be defined as a non-accidental act of plagiarism. A first violation occurs if it is determined, based on the available evidence and the student's report, that the plagiaristic act was intentional or if the student has already been reported for one inadvertent offense. The faculty member must meet with the student and then report to The Bridge as described above. Depending on the nature and seriousness of the offense, the faculty member may require an assignment to be redone, may give an automatic failure for the assignment or may give an automatic failure for the course. The office of the Academic Dean will inform the student that a first violation has been reported and work with the Dean of Students to provide oversight to a first violation. It will be recommended that the student procure writing center editing for their research papers or major writing assignments in their next enrolled semester.

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