sins

of the average college writer:
 
 

1) Merely listing events or rehashing some text without having the courage to say something or express your opinion

2) Pushing propaganda by not fairly explaining opposing points of view and only then demolishing them

3) Forgetting to provide the evidence, the facts or quotations, which will prove the argument you are making.

4) Using anecdotes as if they could validate as well as illustrate

5) Stopping with the first point you think of and forgetting that every effect has a cause and every statement can be assaulted with another “why?”

6) Letting assumptions lie there unexamined, a sin also known as bigotry if not stupidity

7) Failing to show you know the meaning of the words you use, or, just as bad, letting the dictionary or some pompous professor do it for you

8) Not spitting out your only point until the very end instead of introducing your true topic right up front, right away, in a topic sentence in a topic paragraph.

9)  Pontificating, regurgitating, obfuscating, overwriting,  and particularly moralizing instead of analyzing

10)  Boring the reader by being afraid to take a risk and instead writing in a safe boring third person objective voice that does little more than repeat the same trite phrases over and over and over and never does get to the point.

11)  Being too lazy to proofread you’re paper carfully for stupid spelling or mechnacil miss steaks.

12)  Forgetting to erase the URL of the website you bought your plagiarized paper from.