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