Professors' Pet Peeves

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.

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

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"

Susan Walzer 's Pet Peeves All other Professors' Pet Peeves plus lack of proofreading.