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