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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (45660)7/15/1999 12:56:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
The original sentence was:

I may have told the story here before long ago, but when I was teaching expository writing at a school near Vassar College I used to go into the Vassar library, go to the section where they shelved the Masters and Doctoral theses, pick an expository one (English, history, philosophy, etc., rather than biology, mathematics, etc.)off the shelves at random, open it at random, and copy two or three pages and have a wonderful example of lousy writing to take back to my students and ask them to a) try to understand it and b) rewrite it in good English.

Perhaps beyond reproach on purely grammatical grounds, but if I were to write it I would make 3 sentences of that.
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