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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Here's some bad writing
I came across this recently. I've redacted it a bit and changed some words to anonymize it sufficiently, but you get the idea:
"One interesting feature of this work is yet another example of intertextuality – the reference to [proper name deleted]. This, among other recognizably postmodernist aspects of the text, have also been previously studied."
That was an entire paragraph.
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