Comment Key
   
C
 Violates something on the Conventions for Writing in the Humanities
E
 Violates something on the List of Incredibly Annoying Errors
W
 Violates something on the Advice on Cutting Words
E
 Violates something on the Format Rules
Q
 Violates something on the Quotation and Citation Guideliness
Paragraph (if no other explanation, break paragraph here)
fr
 Sentence fragment
Z comma splice or other run-on sentence; break here
sv
Subject-verb conflict
vf
Verb form error
a/a
 Adjective/adverb confusion
ps
 Other part of speech confusion
ts
 Inappropriate or unnecessary verb tense shift
ns
 Number shift, meaning an inappropriate change from singular to plural or the reverse
ant
 No (or unclear or mismatched) antecedent for a pronoun
pr
 Pronoun shift or incorrect pronoun use not involving an antecedent
pp
 Apostrophe error (which is usually a matter of confusing plurals and possessives)
dp
 Dangling participle
syn Confusing or awkward syntax (the arrangement of the parts of a sentence) that is not a dp or mm
prp
 Poor choice of preposition
pv
 Unnecessary or excesssive passive voice
wdy
 Other wordy construction (not on the Advice on Cutting Words)
tr
 Incorrect or no transition
wc
 Poor word choice or imprecise vocabulary
??
 Confusing (one ? means you need a question mark there)
rpt
 Repetitious, meaning that you have made this point already
rdt
 Redundant, meaning that this particular phrasing is repetitive
sp
 Misspelled word
cp
 Capitalization problem (should be capitalized if it’s not, shouldn’t be if it is)
cite
 Failure to cite source
SoA Scale of Abstraction problem (moving from a broad point to a narrow one too quickly, or the reverse)
argh!
General comment meaning “I can’t believe you did this again!” (The length of the word and number of exclamation points indicates my level of frustration: “argh!” is bad enough, but “aaaarrrrgggghhhhhhhh!!!!” is worse.)
 
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