Using this version of Beowulf: https://www.salesianhigh.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/seniors-beowulf-prentice-hall-text-edition.pdf Your Name Professor English IV Date Possible topics: The focus of the paper is how the author or the characters try to persuade the reader or other characters to act, to follow, to believe the same as they do. How does the character Beowulf embody or epitomize the qualities of a great leader? Use punctuation correctly. Each error will result in a one to three-point deduction. Beowulf should be italicized or Beowulf underlined. The character’s name is not. Use the present tense. Tense shifts will result in a three-point deduction. Stay in the present or present perfect if you are discussing literature. Do not use you, contractions, slang, or colloquialisms. You (Yes, I see the irony of my using you) will lose three points for each incorrect use of these errors. Use topic sentences and concluding sentences. The lack of a topic or concluding the sentence will cost the writer three points. Remember that a topic sentence and a concluding sentence do not concern themselves with only the plot. Present an opinion and make an evaluation of the material that you use to support your thesis. You must use quotations and cite them following MLA guidelines for each of the body paragraphs and support the thesis by analyzing the quotation. Lack of a quotation will equal five points. Do not cite more than two lines at a time Eg. Chaucer writes, “There was a lady of Bathe city/ She killed her husbands five, such a pity (651-652). Lack of analysis will count ten points. Run-ons, comma splices, and fragments are unacceptable and will cost three points for each error. You must organize your paper in a logical manner. The number of points deducted will depend on the size of the error. Have you written in the present tense? Did the writer use ‘You’? Did the writer analyze the quotation?
