Page updated 16 September 2024
This page provides general information about the rapidly evolving area of AI-generated text in academic writing and how to cite it using APA 7th Edition publication style. Morling College CCSC students, please consult General requirements for assignments - Bible/Theology and Counselling/Chaplaincy. Morling College Education students, please consult the Assessment Guidelines.
| Academic integrity and AI |
| Grammarly and academic integrity |
| How to cite ChatGPT |
The use of artificial intelligence tools (including, but not limited to, ChatGPT or similar), in any assessment task, including a project or thesis, is a form of academic misconduct.
An authorised use of AI, in all assignments, is to provide the kind of editorial assistance that can be provided by a fellow student, friend, family member etc. It is appropriate for a student to ask a fellow student, friend or family member to:
Assistance of this sort may be obtained through the use of AI-enabled applications such as ChatGPT, Grammarly or GrammarlyGo, provided any use of AI for this purpose is fully referenced (see How to cite ChatGPT and How to cite Grammarly below).
References
Faculty of Education. (2024). Using AI in assignments in Assessment Guidelines for Faculty of Education (p. 12). www.morlingonline.edu.au/
Grammarly’s past and ongoing spelling and grammar help continues to be useful for many students. However, Grammarly’s newer AI capacity employing the “rewrite and rephrase features” may cause an AI-detector to flag the content (https://originality.ai/blog/grammarly-use-trigger-ai-detection). The use of the paragraphing feature in Grammarly (and other AI generators) should be avoided unless specified by your lecturer for use as part of an assessment task.
If you use Grammarly to check your assignment for grammar and spelling, cite Grammarly in the reference list of the assignment. You can either reference the Grammarly grammar-check web page, or the downloaded Grammarly app for your mobile device.
Cite the Grammarly web page
Cite the Grammarly app you downloaded, for example:
References
Gillham, J. (2024). Does using Grammarly make my content get detected as AI-generated?: The results are in. Originality.ai. Retrieved 16 September 2024 from https://originality.ai/blog/grammarly-use-trigger-ai-detection
See also the Software app page
The American Psychological Association, the publisher of the APA style guide, has published a blog titled How to cite ChatGPT. In the blog, the author, Timothy McAdoo, addressed the evolving use of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-generated text in academic work, with examples. Full article here
An example of in-text citations and the full reference from the APA blog. See the full article for more examples.
In-text citations
Narrative:
Parenthetical:
Reference list
Author. (Year). Title (Version) [Large language model]. https://URL
References
McAdoo, T. (2023). How to cite ChatGPT. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt