How can i recover a word document if another file saved over it

A file was saved over an original by mistake. How can I recover the original file?

Assuming your son is working on your OS X 10.6 iMac.
If Pages was setup to automatically create a backup of the file when saved, you should be able to look on the disk for that file name with "backup of" appended to the file name. Otherwise, unless Word saves versions of a document (I'm not familiar enough with Word to know), so that an earlier version of the document is available, the original document is written over and gone.
Do you use Time Machine to backup your system? There may be a copy of the essay there from the hourly backups.

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