Q. If you refer to contextual information, how productive is this? How well do you think this material support and advance the critical content of your essay?
Q. If there is a lack of reference to contexts in your essay, does this have a negative impact on the quality of the essay’s analysis?
Q. How relevant is the contextual information you have used to the essay question being asked? Is it included in order to support/substantiate a specific critical point that you’re making?
Q. Do you feel that contextual information is used in an appropriate way in the essay? (For example, it is not usually advisable to rely on biographical information as a means of interpreting the text, or to view the relationship between a text and the historical context of its production as being necessarily straightforward.)
