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