Thanks so much for the incredible insight! The question was: "Representation of human interactions in An Artist raise questions about individual responsibility. To what extent does this reflect your response to the novel"
My link sentence for body 1 (which was about unreliable narration) was: Hence, provoking we, as the implied listeners, to challenge the constructed narrative ‘truth’ and question the authenticity of Ono’s narrative that deflects his responsibilities as "having no idea".
Feedback was to bring in next paragraph about Intergenerational conflict: Hence, provoking we, as the implied listeners, to question the authenticity of Ono’s narrative through his conflicting perspectives and tense interactions with the new generation.
And to add onto my question, if a question is "To what extent..." would you recommend writing like "to a significant extent" or "to a great extent" in our response? What's the best way to answer this type of question? (sorry! I couldn't find a post on this) Would I answer the "to what extent" question the same for Economics too?
Hey again!
Great questions! Firstly, just be mindful that your linking sentence is technically incomplete
It's one extended dependent clause right now because it's missing the subject of the sentence. You should also try to use "readers" when addressing the audience's reception in relation to a novel (I have only ever used "listeners" for my university essays and that's because I study music and it's more appropriate to). That first one you've presented perhaps might read more accurately like this;
Hence,
Ishiguro's skilful manipulation of unreliable narration provokes we, as the readers, to question the authenticity of Ono’s narrative through his conflicting perspectives and tense interactions with the new generation.
Whether you should bring in the ideas of the next paragraph or not is up to you. I personally feel like that modified linking sentence works well given that it still mentions the "authenticity of Ono's narrative" and, therefore, summarises the main discussion of the paragraph which is on unreliable narration effectively. I think it's okay for you to have your linking sentences flow into your next topic sentences with the condition that you remember to summarise the key focus of the immediate paragraph first. Otherwise, it might be like you've forgotten to link back and that you're just writing two topic sentences for the next paragraph
As for addressing "to what extent", I always tell students that it's worth clarifying "to a significant extent", "to a moderate extent" or "to a limited extent" once in the introduction so that the markers know what your stance on the question is
Doing it excessively, however, is not recommended. An effective response will demonstrate "to what extent" you agree with the question anyway, whether you mention it or not, through a well-structured, integrated discussion of the text and providing strong arguments with relevant textual evidence to support your judgement. Basically, if you forget to write it, it's not the end of the world but it's good to have it explicitly mentioned once for the sake of it. I'm not too sure what the rules are with this in Economics since I didn't study it but I would imagine that it's a similar deal
Let me know if that answers your questions!
Angelina