(no punintended)emoji intext orfootnote"Consideromitting"ad hominemattack onotherauthorsAcronymneverdefinedParagraphthat could bedistilled intoa singlesentenceIrrelevantpersonalanecdoteConcedesthat exampleis onlytangentiallyrelatedpincitemissing"citeneeded""eliminatepassivevoice"commasplice"This wordappears multipletimes in onesentence; pleasevary word choice.""Ithink"Block quotelonger thanthreeparagraphs"pleasedefinethis term""pleasedefinepronoun"MissingwordBizarremetaphor"shorten ordivide intotwosentences"No topicsentencefor pages"Considerprovidingexamples""revise forconcisionandclarity"outdatedpopculturereference(no punintended)emoji intext orfootnote"Consideromitting"ad hominemattack onotherauthorsAcronymneverdefinedParagraphthat could bedistilled intoa singlesentenceIrrelevantpersonalanecdoteConcedesthat exampleis onlytangentiallyrelatedpincitemissing"citeneeded""eliminatepassivevoice"commasplice"This wordappears multipletimes in onesentence; pleasevary word choice.""Ithink"Block quotelonger thanthreeparagraphs"pleasedefinethis term""pleasedefinepronoun"MissingwordBizarremetaphor"shorten ordivide intotwosentences"No topicsentencefor pages"Considerprovidingexamples""revise forconcisionandclarity"outdatedpopculturereference

Substantive Edit Memo Bingo - Call List

(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.


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  1. (no pun intended)
  2. emoji in text or footnote
  3. "Consider omitting"
  4. ad hominem attack on other authors
  5. Acronym never defined
  6. Paragraph that could be distilled into a single sentence
  7. Irrelevant personal anecdote
  8. Concedes that example is only tangentially related
  9. pincite missing
  10. "cite needed"
  11. "eliminate passive voice"
  12. comma splice
  13. "This word appears multiple times in one sentence; please vary word choice."
  14. "I think"
  15. Block quote longer than three paragraphs
  16. "please define this term"
  17. "please define pronoun"
  18. Missing word
  19. Bizarre metaphor
  20. "shorten or divide into two sentences"
  21. No topic sentence for pages
  22. "Consider providing examples"
  23. "revise for concision and clarity"
  24. outdated pop culture reference