Words and phrases to avoid in college-level writing:
“kind of like” or “sort of like”
basically
old school
back in the day
vibe
legit

Avoid these common grammatical errors

• Forgetting to initial capitalize the first word of a sentence
• Forgetting to initial capitalize proper nouns
• Forgetting to capitalize the pronoun “I”
• Starting a sentence with a conjunction (with, and)
• Sentences lacking a subject noun or verb