Margot, a poetry teacher, hopes to shape her students' poetry skills so that they become progressively better over the course of writing three poems. On the first poem, she provides each student with extensive positive and negative feedback. On the second poem, she has less time for grading and only gives students a letter grade and a few positive notes. Given this feedback, how are students likely to perform on the next and final poem?
A. The poems will be of worse quality than the first two submissions.
B. The poems will be of similar quality to the first two submissions.
C. The poems will be of better quality than the first two submissions.
D. Many students will not submit a third and final poem.
Answer: B
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