pretentious lacks reference to class discussion adverbs confusing author- narrator- character jargon mistakes of fact generalizations in the text wordiness passive voice quote marks (“Dostoevsky is one of the greatest”…) fluff comparatives (“more” or “less”) insufficient quotes from text straying from thesis sentence too long vagueness redundancy attributing intent to Dostoevsky citation format (missing translator, etc.) too many “of”s more than 3 “is/are” in the paper Generalizations in introduction wrong or missing italics pretentious lacks reference to class discussion adverbs confusing author- narrator- character jargon mistakes of fact generalizations in the text wordiness passive voice quote marks (“Dostoevsky is one of the greatest”…) fluff comparatives (“more” or “less”) insufficient quotes from text straying from thesis sentence too long vagueness redundancy attributing intent to Dostoevsky citation format (missing translator, etc.) too many “of”s more than 3 “is/are” in the paper Generalizations in introduction wrong or missing italics
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
pretentious
lacks reference to class discussion
adverbs
confusing author-narrator-character
jargon
mistakes of fact
generalizations in the text
wordiness
passive voice
quote marks
(“Dostoevsky is one of the greatest”…)
fluff
comparatives (“more” or “less”)
insufficient quotes from text
straying from thesis
sentence too long
vagueness
redundancy
attributing intent to Dostoevsky
citation format (missing translator, etc.)
too many “of”s
more than 3 “is/are” in the paper
Generalizations in introduction
wrong or missing italics