Junior year in a college level course, my child was told to use her own words and not the ones from the text. She was so hurt because those were her words. But this teacher seemed to have an issue with higher vocabulary being used at home and in her other writings. She just let the prof judge her and complained to me. Actually, I think that made her back down her efforts so she didn’t sound like she was plagiarising or using other’s words. Learning experience!