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