Exegesis Paper

I am working on an exegesis paper right now and having a hell of a time with it. I really should be writing but I am hoping that maybe getting some frustration out will make it easier for me to make some headway.

So the format we are asked to write in is really throwing me. In my undergrad education I did several pretty descent sized exegesis papers. I would look at the given text and after thinking about it come up with a thesis. I would then plan an argument, outline it, and write my paper citing primary and secondary sources. I don?t know what has happened since then but this is totally different. For some reason I am being asked to write this one as a series of mini papers looking at the text from several different interpretive frames. Using different interpretive frames is not a problem but doing each of them individually of each other is making my head hurt. I feel like I am being asked to write a commentary on the verse instead of a paper that argues a thesis. We had to write a thesis but to what end I am not sure, how does this all work together? Does it work together?

Right now I am going to do as much research as I can tonight and write it all up and try to break it down into the requested categories. But I don?t know what the hell the point is of that. Why do all this work and reading if I cant put it into my thesis? For its own merit?

Sigh?

~ by ajdele on April 9, 2008.