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Beowulf
Middle Draft Stage
- Set the context of each of the quotations you selected from Beowulf. Be sure to give your reader a good idea of what just happened in the poem and what they need to know to follow your quotation. Assume they have read the book but do not know where you are quoting from.
- Rewrite the quotation. This gives you a very good idea of the word used in the poem and allows you to check if your insights are good or need a bit of revision and development. You will realize what you are doing well and what you need to develop or revise as you retype the quotation. It’s weird.
- Revise and develop your description of the quotation. What you started to realize as you retyped the quotation now needs to be integrated into what you have already completed. This seems redundant and is for much of the Middle Draft, but you will find yourself making a number of minor adjustments and maybe a few major ones as you revise and develop your description.
- Revise and develop your analysis of the quotation. After retyping the quotation and revising and developing the description, there is a very good chance you have reconsidered your insights. You probably have the same basic idea but can go further and sharpen your point. Now is the time.
- Write your introduction to your body paragraphs by giving a sense of which scenes you are going to cover and what insights you are going to provide in each body paragraph. That means you should be writing about two sentences in the introduction for each body paragraph. In the end, you should have about eight sentences in your introduction to give a good idea of where you are going with your essay. After reading the introduction, your reader has a solid map of your essay and knows where the essay is going. Your body paragraphs will prove your insights and provide the evidence while your introduction sets them up.
- Write the thesis based on the analyses from each body paragraph. This is next to impossible to do, but needs to be done. Expect to write a thesis that is convoluted and confusing the first time. Avoid the platitudes that state general and obvious points such as "Beowulf is an important figure in Old English literature" or "Beowulf serves as a champion of the people." These theses statements are too easy. Go for specific insights such as "Beowulf portrays himself as a warrior who is both brave and loyal to his people, but during his reign and battle with the dragon embodies the values of greed and shows poor judgement regarding his own leadership of the Geats."
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