It means you must be the weaver, not the mirror. They want the cloth of understanding you have spun from the threads of the text, not the original bolt. Lifted phrases show no such work. Reviewing my daughter's old answer sheets, I see the red ink only blessed the paragraphs that sounded like her thoughtful voice, not the textbook's. When she explains a news article to me now, I don't want her reading it back; I want her own summary, just as I once explained the workings of a telephone exchange in my own way.
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