What the Marks on Your Paper Mean
a check mark
in the margins
means
"good point"
- 10 bib
Minus
10 points for not having a bibliography or having a sloppy bibliography
(including improper style or missing citations)
- 10 page #
Minus
10 points for not numbering your pages (including the bibliography page)
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C |
You need to cite your source. |
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G |
There is a grammatical problem (one that is too complicated for me to fix without rewriting the entire sentence). |
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I |
You are being too informal. |
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P |
You are using passive tense. -- "The ball was hit by her" is passive. "She hit the ball" is active (and better American English). |
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R |
This is a run-on sentence. |
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S-P |
There is a singular/plural conflict. |
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Sp |
The word is mispelled. |
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T |
You use past and present tense in the same sentence. |
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You are being unclear. |
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F |
Fragment |
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