"This wordappears multipletimes in onesentence; pleasevary word choice.""pleasedefinethis term""shorten ordivide intotwosentences""Considerprovidingexamples"Block quotelonger thanthreeparagraphs"pleasedefinepronoun"Acronymneverdefinedad hominemattack onotherauthorsIrrelevantpersonalanecdoteMissingwordBizarremetaphor"Consideromitting""Ithink""citeneeded"emoji intext orfootnoteParagraphthat could bedistilled intoa singlesentence(no punintended)No topicsentencefor pagesConcedesthat exampleis onlytangentiallyrelated"eliminatepassivevoice"commasplice"revise forconcisionandclarity"pincitemissingoutdatedpopculturereference"This wordappears multipletimes in onesentence; pleasevary word choice.""pleasedefinethis term""shorten ordivide intotwosentences""Considerprovidingexamples"Block quotelonger thanthreeparagraphs"pleasedefinepronoun"Acronymneverdefinedad hominemattack onotherauthorsIrrelevantpersonalanecdoteMissingwordBizarremetaphor"Consideromitting""Ithink""citeneeded"emoji intext orfootnoteParagraphthat could bedistilled intoa singlesentence(no punintended)No topicsentencefor pagesConcedesthat exampleis onlytangentiallyrelated"eliminatepassivevoice"commasplice"revise forconcisionandclarity"pincitemissingoutdatedpopculturereference

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 outdated pop culture reference