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I 'm curious to know why your writing style is so good in some parts of the paper and so poor in others. And why have you not shown such great writing on the in-class essays?"
• "This long passage doesn 't sound like your normal style. Is this a quotation where you accidentally forgot the quotation marks?"
• "Explain to me again what the rules for paraphrasing or summarizing are. Some of the passages in your paper make me think you might be unclear about them."
"Is there any reason that a class member would tell me that you didn 't write this
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