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How good are undergraduate papers, typically?

This is a question for grad students and undergraduates who have served as a TA, as well as professors of course. I am curious what quality of paper undergraduates tend to produce, in general, excluding unusually high and low quality papers. 

I would appreciate examples or excerpts if you can provide them.
gpt
There's a huge range. Freshmen papers often don't make much sense. Some students never get much better. Some upperclassmen are quite good. It's rare (but not impossible) for an undergraduate paper to be good enough to present a novel and convincing argument for a philosophically interesting conclusion. But many are written in a crisp, clean style; demonstrate good understanding of the material; set up the problem well; and rehearse many of the best arguments for a given view.