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PLAGIARISM POLICY

Plagiarism is the use of words, ideas or views of another person as if they were your own. Plagiarism is contrary to the spiritual practices of truthfulness (Satya) and of non-stealing (Asteya) — it is considered to be a form of intellectual dishonesty and, as such, is a serious academic offense. The potential penalties range from receiving “no credit” in the course, to a letter of discipline placed in the student’s permanent academic file, or even suspension or expulsion from the seminary program.

Plagiarism includes:

• passing off another’s written work as your own—whether from a book, magazine, website, paper… any form
• failing to give credit to your sources for the ideas, information, and words you have borrowed from them
• not quoting when you use another’s exact  words
• not  changing the wording or sentence structure significantly enough when you paraphrase a source