Like William McCleary and David Neyhart, I suspect there's been some
mistranslation on the student's part.  The advanced comp teacher could have
been railing against the overuse of "of" phrases in, for instance, academic
and business writing.  And he/she also could have pointed out that such
writing often misuses passives and that writers should be careful about
both-cludgy, overnominalized sentences and weak passives.  It wouldn't take
much for a student to confuse the issues.

A colleague, who was in the middle of  a lit crit article, the other day
stopped me in the hall and said in desperation, "there should be a law
against more than two 'of' phrases in any sentence."  Anyone who reads
academic prose should sympathize with that statement.

I'd give your student's advanced comp teacher the benefit of the doubt.
The only way you'll find out what the professor really said is to ask
him/her.  Max

Max Morenberg
English Department
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056