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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)

C

You need to cite your source.









G

There is a grammatical problem (one that is too complicated for me to fix without rewriting the entire sentence).









You are being too informal. 









P

You are using passive tense. -- "The ball was hit by her" is passive.  "She hit the ball" is active (and better American English). 









R

This is a run-on sentence.









S-P

There is a singular/plural conflict.









Sp

The word is mispelled. 









T

You use past and present tense in the same sentence. 









?

You are being unclear.









F

Fragment