Calendar 2012-2013 - Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing

The required style manual for the formatting of essays and assignments at the LSBFON is:Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington: AmericanPsychological Association, 2010.Course coordinators for each course are responsible for collecting and returning all writtenassignments, and must set up an arrangement whereby papers can be signed in upon receipt.Students are responsible for ensuring that the teacher receives the submitted paper.Students are advised to keep a copy of their assignments before submitting them.The course coordinator for each course will determine the due date for assignments and considerindividual requests for an extension of the due date.(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(v)Negotiation of making a presentation or the submission of a paper after the due datebecause of extenuating circumstances must be discussed with the course instructor. Thestudent must make this request in writing prior to the due date. A medical certificate isrequired in the case of illness.Grades of papers submitted after the due date where no alternate due date has beengranted, or papers submitted after the renegotiated due date, will be lowered by 2% foreach day that the paper is late, weekends included.Written assignments that are more than two weeks late will not be accepted without priorarrangements. In situations of illness or personal circumstances which interfere with thestudent‟s ability to submit an assignment within two weeks of the due date, students maypetition the Committee on Standing to have the assignment accepted. This petition mustbe received within one month of the original due date of the assignmentAn oral presentation, for which no alternate date has been negotiated, which is notpresented on the assigned date, will receive a grade of 0.When submitting written assignments it is important that students are aware that theFaculty and the University regard incidents of plagiarism as very serious academicoffences and penalties can be severe. Guidelines related to academic honesty and howto guard against plagiarism can be found at the following university link.http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/using-sources/how-not-to-plagiarizeExaminationsExaminations for individual courses are held throughout the school year. All students areexpected to be available until the end of scheduled examination periods. Students who makepersonal commitments during the examination periods do so at their own risk; no specialconsideration will be given and no special arrangements made in the event of conflicts in suchcircumstances.Within one month of the issue of final grade results, students may be allowed on request toreview their final examination papers in the presence of a designated staff member. Examinationpapers may not be removed from the Faculty. Arrangements must be made with the office ofStudent Services. If, upon inspection of the examination paper, a student wishes to have itUniversity of Toronto Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing Calendar 2012-2013 84