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