mistakes of fact wrong or missing italics insufficient quotes from text generalizations in the text lacks reference to class discussion straying from thesis attributing intent to Dostoevsky sentence too long too many “of”s confusing author- narrator- character fluff more than 3 “is/are” in the paper passive voice Generalizations in introduction vagueness pretentious wordiness citation format (missing translator, etc.) adverbs comparatives (“more” or “less”) quote marks redundancy (“Dostoevsky is one of the greatest”…) jargon mistakes of fact wrong or missing italics insufficient quotes from text generalizations in the text lacks reference to class discussion straying from thesis attributing intent to Dostoevsky sentence too long too many “of”s confusing author- narrator- character fluff more than 3 “is/are” in the paper passive voice Generalizations in introduction vagueness pretentious wordiness citation format (missing translator, etc.) adverbs comparatives (“more” or “less”) quote marks redundancy (“Dostoevsky is one of the greatest”…) jargon
(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.
mistakes of fact
wrong or missing italics
insufficient quotes from text
generalizations in the text
lacks reference to class discussion
straying from thesis
attributing intent to Dostoevsky
sentence too long
too many “of”s
confusing author-narrator-character
fluff
more than 3 “is/are” in the paper
passive voice
Generalizations in introduction
vagueness
pretentious
wordiness
citation format (missing translator, etc.)
adverbs
comparatives (“more” or “less”)
quote marks
redundancy
(“Dostoevsky is one of the greatest”…)
jargon