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1. Just to make it clear - we will not give you a topic for your EE, but we will help you refine and expand on your original ideas for a topic. You are marked on your choice of topic so we can't help you with that.
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The title is pretty much self-explanatory (lol) but if not, this is a post about writing an a1 language ee, primarily focused on english obviously, and based largely on personal experience. If you have any questions about this post (turned out longer than I expected!) or the ee itself, send me a message. Also, if you have a draft and are looking for feedback, I might be able to help. Ground rules first - you need to have a good grasp of your the language you are writing your extended essay (latin and ancient greek possibly excepted) -- and this probably means a good grade in the relevant class. Choosing good supervisor, and one you are on good terms with, is also a good i…
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Want to share the title of your extended essay? Or perhaps need help choosing one? This is the place. Psychology - The Psychology of Road Rage: A discussion of psychological explanations of road rage and policy implications.
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Extended Essay for Dummies How to Start Your Extended Essay, How to Avoid Last Minute Panics, How to Effectively Get Help with your Extended Essay and More About to start your EE? Have you read the IBO Extended Essay Guide yet? If not, read it before continuing! Also please note - start a new thread if you want help with your EE! People do not regularly read this thread and you may not get a response. 1. So what exactly IS the Extended Essay? This is actually an extremely important post for many people to read, because many people fail to understand the significance of exactly what makes the Extended Essay unique, and go off in completely the wrong direction! It i…
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My IB Coordinator told me that it is super rare to get an A in EE and the majority of people get a C on EE... is that really good then? is getting an A practically impossible? i was just wondering what other people got...
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hey guys im doing a survey for my ee on itgs. Only answer questions that apply to you http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W2ZDTTP
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Hi all, I just replied to a specific/topic-based EE question, and I'll repost my reply here as some of the hints/tips/advice/comments could be useful to others Ok, so it's been over a year since I did my EE, but I'll try my best to give you some help/tips. - Your topic is wayyyyyyyyyyy too broad for an EE. You should try and make it a local topic, even if it's from a broad origin. I did mine on the effect of falling economic growth (as measured by GDP) in Australia (very broad) on the residential property market of the Brisbane postal code of 4000 (extremely specific). Ultimately I didn't like my topic as there were too many variables, but I managed to still get an…
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There have been many questions about citation and referencing. Here are some good links to help you: MLA Guides http://www.utoledo.edu/library/help/guides/docs/MLAstyle.pdf Footnote Instructions and Samples http://www.aresearchguide.com/7footnot.html http://www.aresearchguide.com/samplefootnote.html http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/04/ http://fc.lovett.org/~rmartin/footnotes/ http://dept.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/stylesheet/mla-foot.htm Bibliography / Works cited page Instructions and Samples http://www.easybib.com/ (automatic) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/06/ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/ http://www.aresearchguide.com/sampl…
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The word limit for the EE is 4000 words. If you go over this limit you lose marks. There is no minimum but for most subjects, you should expect to go above 3500 words. For experiment based subjects like sciences or math you can go as low as 2500 if there is sufficient formulae working (math) or data (sciences) or other things not included in the word count but suffices to show that you've done work on the essay. The word limit for the Abstract is separate and is 300 words. The following are not included in the word count: footnotes, appendices, abstract. Any direct quotations included in the body of the essay are included in the word count. If you don't want to include…
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Hey guys! so while i was going through the threads, i saw that none of them actually gave good pointers on how to write a very good abstract. So i've got a few notes which i'll share with everyone. They were handouts which my supervisor had given me, but i just condensed it into one. Good luck! HOW TO WRITE AN ABSTRACT An abstract is a concise, stand-alone statement that conveys the essential information contained in an article, book, research paper, or document. Written in a direct non-repetitive style, the abstract should: - Identify the problem (research question of thesis) investigated. - Describe the scope or method of investigation. - Summarize the results. - …
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Here are the links to the Extended Essay examples we have on our Files archive. To be able to download files, you have to be a VIP member or a VIP subscriber. Please see the FAQfor information on how to become a VIP or how to buy a VIP subscription. If you want to donate and contribute files to our archive, please see this announcementor this FAQ section. Extended Essays Biology & Environmental Systems Chemistry Economics and Bussiness & Management Group 6 History Language A1 Language B Mathematics Other Group 3 subjects Physics Psychology
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Its hilarious to think of a site that is considering helping future students when their time is so limited especially on an IB basis. How can new users "benefit from [the site]" when you are proposing them to post 100 comments/posts. I mean take my intention as an example. I want my second post to be an economic guide to "benefit [the site]" ,with my essay attached to it, but how would it be possible for me to open my own essay, or my other friends'. T_T [administrator] ; Dues, lc, and hms, please see to my request upon giving more acknowledgeable privileges to the new IB'ers. I understand by what you meant when you thought that people could "benefit themselves only". B…
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hey... me doin my essay on ants.....repelling ants using common household materials like vinegar, turmeric, lemon, cucumber.....and many more.....its interesting.......getting positive results........almost complete.......... BUT CAN ANYONE FRAME A RESEARCH QUESTION FOR ME PLZ
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I was reading the EE guidelines for a paper in psychology and it indicated that i should not do my essay under the psychology field if i did not take psychology as a part of the Diploma Programme. My school does not offer psychology as a part of the Diploma Programme; however, i took AP psychology last year and did exceptionally well both in the course and on the test, so i am very familiar with psychology. Should I still do my essay in psychology then? And if so, any ideas on what topic/research question i should choose? i'm highly interested in intelligence, memory, learning, and development
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Hey, I´ve to hand in my extended essay subject choice form in two weeks and I thought I could write an extended essay in the category world studies. I don´t know anyone at my school that has done that, so I wanted to ask if there´s anyone who has written an essay in that category and maybe share their experience and tell me if they would recommend me to do that or not. I thought about taking the subjects English language and literature and History. I take English A HL, but not History. However, I had history at my old school for a few years and was quite good at it. The reason why I want to do my essay in world studies and with this subjects is because I want to wri…
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Hi all I am interested at exploring Singapore English ( singlish) for my ee for English b. Is this position and which category would it fit into and any ideas what exactly I could explore ? Many thanks
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Hi all I am interested at exploring Singapore English ( singlish) for my ee for English b. Is this position and which category would it fit into and any ideas what exactly I could explore ? Many thanks
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Psychology EE - Psychosocial treatments to improve wellbeing of patients receiving palliative care
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Hi guys! I've drafted my research question but I can't decide between which one I should go with. The topics are the same but just rephrased differently. Is it too broad? Can it be answered in 4,000 words? Should I only focus on one psychosocial intervention (I'm afraid that I will not have enough to write about if I just focus on one)? Should I do adults and elderly patients? Q1: How can brief and long-term psychosocial interventions focused one on one improve quality of life in mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing in adult and elderly patients receiving palliative care? Q2: How can cognitive behaviour therapy and humanistic therapies improve quality of …
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Hi! I'm doing an Extended essay on English Language and Literature, focusing on Agatha Christie and her novel And Then There Were None. I'm especially fascinated by the subgenre in which this book falls into, the locked-room mystery/impossible crime. I want to look into how choices made within the story and choices made by Agatha as she wrote the book contributed to developing an impossible crime. (Eg. Character interactions/how they viewed one another, and literary devices Christie employed respectively. Hopefully this makes sense.) The research question I'm considering is: How is the locked-room mystery trope developed in Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were…
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I have already written my Economics EE on what factors have caused public transportation ridership to decline in the US in recent years . My Math IA is currently on whether population density affects the ridership of public transportation in the US. As you can see, it is not the same topic but it is very similar and I was wondering if I was allowed to use writing from my EE (my own) and incorporate it into my Math IA. Would it count as duplication? Anything helps so thank you in advance.
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I want to do my EE in History about the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Maybe look into the international response, or compare two responses (e.g. China's vs Britain's). I don't know how to formulate a RQ tho, and I'm also a bit lost regarding the analysis part - I don't think I have one yet. Possibly which response was more crucial..? Any help/ideas would be very much appreciated!!
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[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="#9932cc"]I am doing language B for English which is higher level I have the thought of doing EE in this subject. I don't know if it is ok for doing this , and would it have the possibility to get a better mark or it has many difficulties. Thanks for sharing your opinions......[/color][/font]
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HI! Could anyone give me some advice on how to do a proper extended essay outline? How detailed has it got to be? Thank you
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basiclly i dont know what catagory it would land in and how to formulate a good question for it now i have an ee already written but i hate it so i want to do this the said abuse kpop idols face such as emotional physical etc.
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I'm doing Harry Potter for my EE and I somewhat ran out of ideas. Can any of you help me get more ideas please. I already have some ideas, but my supervisor said its not enough and I have to figure out more ideas to support my topic. Please help.... *begs*
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I have been researching topics for a while now and have come up with an idea that I like. My idea is to investigate the effect of the angle of attack of a frisbee on its trajectory/displacement. The topic would include investigating how lift is generated, how torque comes into play, the temperature and pressure of that air. I have seen a few extended essay exemplars and their topics seem much more complicated and advanced. Do you think my idea is suitable for an EE?
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I'm an 11th grade physics student and I'm intersted in finding a physics extended essay topic relating to astrophysics. The main issue I have encountered until now, is that either my topic faces an insane level of complication after looking into it or there is no proper research question. My Main ideas until now are: the concept of the skyhook, orbital phyics and/or centripetal force in space (idea of artficial gravity). This is vague but if anyone has any ideas that might help i would be very thankful,
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Hey guys! I'm new here as I started IB recently. I have to decide my EE question before November ends. I want to do something related to LGBTQ+ rights, as I am gay and it is a topic that I care very much about. My advisor told me that this topic, as it is human rights, fits well with my Global Politics course. The problem is that I don't have any ideas for me research question. Any recommendations/ideas????
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Hi, I'm struggling with choosing my IB extended essay topic between philosophy and english literature. I take the high level course for both subjects. I'm relatively more interested in both subjects, but I'm worried by the statistics found online that state that having an insufficient grade for a humanity subject extended essay is much more likely than doing an extended essay for literature. I'm looking for some advice or pros and cons of choosing each, but I am not interested in advice about choosing my topic of interest over another topic because that is the most common advice I have seen online, and isn't really helpful. Thanks!
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I am confused if this is the same, comparing and contrasting character analysis and development from two different books. The fiction books I will be using are Eragon and The Novice, and I will be going through the first book of the series. I was thinking that first, I would analyze how both characters are being developed through their obstacles and how they react to them. Then I would analyze different factors that are involved with these characters like their goals and influences and compare the who main characters of their respective stories. Any idea if this is a plausible EE?
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I'm suddenly so confused for my WSEE.. please help me out
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Hey guys so I have a hypothetical question: Since we can use different cultural artifacts like films in the Eng B EE do you think that perhaps investigating the portrayal of Norse Mythology in Thor movies would be an okay idea for it?
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How hard should I work? What approaches should I take? Would it be difficult to get an A, than a physics or any-other EE??
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At first, I was thinking of writing about how use of language changes in adverts in the 80s, 80s and 2000s but I can't seem to find any advertisements. I'm still thinking of doing something about change in language and slangs, but I can't figure out what to write about and I'm freaking out because 1. I can't talk to my supervisor about it for a couple of reasons lol and 2. The first draft was due ages ago. Can anyone please help me to think about something? I'm absolutely desperate.
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Hey, I need help with possible RQs for Joseon Dynasty era in Korea. I want to look at the early-mid stages of the Dynasty but don’t really know what specific RQs to come up with (to what extent, how did...,) type of stuff. I am super interested in Confucianism/Neo-Confucianism or the creation of hangul but idk if they are too hard. I have access to a uni library so I am not worrying too much about sources. It doesn’t have to be limited to the two topics i mentioned above. I just want to write about something in that era.
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Hi everyone, I'm in year12 and seeking some advice on my EE choices. I do both german and econ at HL: I currently have a B2 in german, aiming for C1 next summer. Econ EEs seem so hard(my teacher said the ones who don't care about their grades do it) and simply just doesn't interest me, compared to german culture & language, which I would love to research&write about. p.s. i wanna study business management at uni Is a language b ee just too difficult? Do you have any suggestions, experiences or advice? Thank you!
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HELLO I want to write my extended essay on physics, and do it on special relativity. I have two possible topics (not well defined yet): 1.- Special relativity's time dilation proven by muon decay 2.- Special relativity effect on magnetism (i.e. why non permanent magnets work when electricity is conducted through them, from a special relativity approach) Now, these two topics are something I'm really interested in. I really wanted to do an EE on astrophysics but I think is better if I stop at relativity. The question here is, are any of my topics appropriate? How can I achieve an 'original' approach with them? Any suggestion on narrowing the area of s…
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Hello! So I just got my first Extended Essay draft feedback, and the main thing she said was that I have to include more analysis of historiography. What is the best way to go about doing this? Thank you so much in advance!
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I am very interested in the topic of cancer and am wanting to write my EE over it. I was thinking maybe a biochemistry essay of sorts, but I am having problems coming up with a good RQ. I've read on other sites that cancer is too broad of a topic for an EE, but I have access to a cancer researcher and a research center and am very passionate about this topic so I do want to write it over this if possible. Any ideas or feedback?
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Hey IB lads, I just started IB1 and my teachers and peers are already working/deciding on EE subjects and their topics. I'm really lost right now because I don't even know what subject I want to do the EE in. Some of my peers are already reserving teachers as their EE moderators and I'm scared I will be one of the last ones to get one which results in less time with my moderator. My subjects are Math HL, Physics HL, Psychology SL, English A L&L SL, Finnish B HL, and Chemistry SL. 1. Do you guys have any tips on choosing an EE subject and then a topic? 2. Are there any trends like "English A EEs do worse" or "Experimental EEs are impossible to get an A in…
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I am writing a Language & Literature Category 3 Extended Essay in which I analyze political victory speeches. My question will be "to what extent does X impact Y?", but I fear that the answer will be "not at all" or "barely." Will not finding anything hurt my essay? TLDR: LangLit Cat3 EE discovers nothing
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Hey! So, my RQ is "To what extent would the merge between David Jones and Myers be an effective economic growth strategy?". This is due real soon and I need help with what I need to write in my body paragraphs. My teacher has suggested that I talk about economies of scale. I also want to do a finance type of processed data, such as a profit and loss account. Could anyone suggest what type of finance table would be suitable for the RQ, as well as other things I could write about in my body paragraphs. Thank You.
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Hey so I have a question. If lets say I do my IA in biology and follow an experiment that has been done before but I change a few things to make it my own? e.g the effect of temperature on seed germination but instead of copying the exact temperature conditions, I come up with my own. Is it plagiarism? Do you have to come up with your own experiment?I'm freaking out
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Hi all, I have decided to write my EE in History and I'd love to know your opinion on whether the analysis of the accuracy of a historical movie is a valid History EE topic. To be more precise, I'd like to analyse the historical accuracy of "Schindler's List". Any tips highly appreciated:)
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hi! i am writing an EE under the visual arts guidelines, with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and it's author, hirohiko araki, as my main focus. i need help coming up with good research questions. i love araki and his work and i would really love to write about it, particularly his most well known series, jojo's bizarre adventure, but i am having a bit of an issue on where to start. i am currently a junior, so i have a lot of time, but i would like to start considering these things right now. i would much prefer if you helped me while having at least a general knowledge of what jjba is or who araki is, but its fine if you don't! …
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Hi, I'm trying to decide on an Economics EE topic and namely around analyzing the most fitting market structure for an industry, for which I've been using this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0j4_Jo3fMQ My main question is if I want to analyze the market structure of my local real estate market, is that too broad? Because obviously there's the buying and selling of homes, the developers who buy land, lenders, banks, etc. So with the EE in mind, is my best bet to broadly discuss all of these elements of the RE market or to focus on the financing, housing markets, etc more specifically? Thanks!
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Hi guys, I'm planning to do a history ee about the Dred Scott case. Is the RQ "To what extent was Roger Taney justified in his ruling for the Dred Scott case?" a viable question? Thank you so much
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EE in Mathematics - Chaos theory
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Hello, I was searching in the internet for some EE examples or ideas, and I found this nice forum, I hope I get some ideas in here. First of all I decided to produce my EE on Mathematics. This might surprise you but that means that I am the second student ever making an EE in mathematics in my school, no one wants to do it. I read the extended essay in mathematics that the other student produced, and it was about statistics, theme for which I hold no particular interest. I am in Higher Level mathematics, and was thinking to produce an extended essay on Chaos Theory, but I really cant think of an idea on how to approach it. It would be nice if I get some feedback from you…
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I was doing math EE about finding the least amount of moves in a Tower of Hanoi game with N amount of disks and P amount pegs. Then, I found out that mathematical formulas are not enough and coding is needed to find the answer. Right now, my work contains a little bit more coding than math but I was able to get an answer to the question so I am thinking about adapting it to comp sci by doing something such as writing a program to tell which disk to move, step by step to complete the game etc. However, I've looked up examples of comp sci EE and my topic is very different from them as my topic would be more related to math while having a some more coding than calculation. …
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The research question I have chosen for my Extended Essay is "Do common commercial pesticides stunt the germination and growth time of Phaseolus vulgaris (the common bean)?" I am planning on buying 5-10 bean seeds and testing different pesticides on each sample, and then measuring the rate of germination and the time it takes for the bean to grow stalks (having another sample with no pesticides as a control group, of course). Firstly, I want to know if this question is narrow enough. Secondly, is my experimental process too simple for an EE? I think if I talk about the importance of beans in many parts of Africa and the world, and then talk about the biological …
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So the EE which I decided to do a couple months ago was a conventional history one about the muslim conquest of spain, but I'm considering switching my topic entirely while still trying to keep my EE in history. The two main ideas I have are reconstructing proto-coast salish(or another small group of indigenous languages), and writing about how the salish languages were impacted by colonialism(both territorially and linguistically). I've seen that others have been able to do quasi-linguistics essays but seeing that there's obviously no IB subject for it, what's possible seems rather vague. I should mention that my advisor does not have a degree in linguistics and I'm not …
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