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YOUR
professor reads many student papers. Encountering the same
mistakes in paper after paper, he/she becomes annoyed, grouchy,
maybe even exasperated. Student errors become professors'
pet peeves. Help your professor (and yourself) by not bugging
them.
Kate
Berheide's Pet Peeves
1. Using "data" as singular
2. Confusion of its and it's
3. Mispunctuation of et al.
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John Brueggemann 's
Pet Peeves
1. Which vs. that
2. Effect vs. affect
3. No page numbers
4. Fancy plastic binding
5. No staple
6. Cited sources not in bibliography
7. Sources in bibliography not cited
8. E.g., or i.e., or et al., without proper periods and
commas
9. Too many semicolons
10. Plural and singular pronouns in same sentence
11. Shifts in tense
12. Quotation marks after the citation
13. Indented quote with quotation marks
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Bill Fox's Pet Peeves
1. No page numbers
2. Singular-plural disagreement
3. Second person "you"
4. Confusion of "effect" and "affect"
5. Conditional "would"
6. Fonts smaller than 10 and larger than 11
7. Unnecessary use of "the"
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Susan
Walzer 's Pet Peeves
All other Professors' Pet Peeves plus lack of proofreading.
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Modified
October 16, 2000
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