Sorry this has drifted away from academic texts but we have a bonus word of the day: Merit.
While reading the guidelines for my dissertation I came across this gem:
"6.13 Examiners shall have the discretion to award a degree with distinction to a candidate who has shown exceptional merit and a degree with merit to a candidate who has shown merit."
One would need to be quite meritorious apparently to be distinct.
Oh god. I actually cringed. That's awful.
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