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I sipped my coffee and started reading the paper again. It was supposed to be a simple assignment about The Scarlet Letter and how Hester is depicted in the novel, but as I read through this student's essay, I could hardly make heads or tails out of it. She had gotten all the characters wrong, for one thing, but most importantly it read as if it was written in an entirely different language. I asked her to come to my office hours to speak to her about the paper, so that perhaps she...