Extended Essay
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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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Well I want to write my EE from english B1 from Chronicles of Narnia. Unfortunately my english teacher is not sure whether Extended essay can be from books for children. I personally dont see why not. Nothing in guide is written about it. So what do you think about it? I don't have exact topic yet, i'm still thinking but i have some ideas.
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Word Count
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Okay, well my EE isn't due for a while, and unfortunately I have a err... not bad because she's brilliant but not a helpful advisor. She won't tell me the minimum word limit for an EE in Physics because I don't think she actually knows.... and she can't give me a yes or no answer if the data collection like charts and stuff count in that word count. I love Physics and I love my physics teacher but I want this crap done so I can work on my Psychology IA... can anyone help? Please and thank yous!!!
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I'm writing my Economics EE on micro probably. Still didn't choose a topic, I'm trying to find some sample essays but I can't find them, so please if you have them or know where I can find them please post. ThanQ,,, *EDIT* Found them!! http://base.google.com/base/a/1543614/D1581990987395767806 these EEs range from 3/21 to 18/21
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An Analysis of Edo Period and the Proposal of Commodore Perry Is this a good title and topic for my history extended essay?
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I'm not sure if this applies to every school that has the ib programme, but my school makes us sign a sheet - with our title on it during the last few months of our junior year. is this an ib thing? and if so, are we allowed to change the topics? (Thank you to all, in advance!)
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As the question says, what font size should we use for the body paragraph of our beloved EE? Smaller ones look nicer, save paper, but I am thinking that the markers have bad eye sight and need slightly larger fonts. What font size did u guys use or want to suggest? I am going crazy on the presentation of EE right now... I will be fine...
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Ok so I've started writing my Extended Esay, which is titled "Language as a means of control in 1984" in English, and I realized that i forgot to ask whether or not i should like write a quick summary about the book, or should I just write my Extended Essay assuming the person whose going to read it knows what about the book and what im talking about and everything? I still can't believe I forgot to ask that! so if anyone can help that would be great! Thank you! =)
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[b]I NEED HELP!! i've been told by my english teacher that she prefers that i do two books for my English A1 EE analysis... thing is, i did find a book that i really like : TOni Morrison's "Beloved" But. I DON"T KNOW another book that goes along with this!!! I bought Alice Walker's "The colour Purple" But, i can't find a single common ground! Any suggestion? Need Help ASAP![/b]
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hello, first post here! i recently changed topic/supervisor, and I'm now doing my EE on the Visual Arts. I've decided to focus on synesthetic elements of the works of Paul Klee and Kandinsky, and possible titles at the moment are: "What is the significance of synesthesia in the works of Paul Klee and Kandinsky?" or, my supervisor's suggestion, "How is the application of synesthesia significant or meaningful in the works of Paul Klee and Kandinsky?" (not sure about this one, meh..) Anywho my supervisor thinks they need "jazzing up" and I agree, they sound kind of boring as they are. Any help would be much appreciated! C: Synesthesia, by the way, is the phenomeno…
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G'day, I've brought the plants, which were grown under various conditions, to the public laboratory . All the research (e.g. composition of the plant) was undergone by the researchers there. So I wonder If it is permissible to obtain research data in this way (for my EE) and, if yes, how should I describe the use of help from other sources? Best regards, R.
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I'm desperately trying to find a topic for my EE in Economics... Can anybody give me some ideas on what I can do it on?? Thank you!!
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ok so im in IB 2end yr.. im currently starting to work on my extended essay in biology i have my topic and everything sorted out but the thing is that i have no idea where to start , what with and HOW! my EE mentor not being much help and i've tried talking to someone of higher authority but im not getting much help ... what should i do... PLZ TRY AND GUIDE me if possible any sort of assistance would be appreciated..thank you.. Sabreena
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so. im new here but i would really appreciate some of your advice! last week i came SO close to dropping IB, shamefully largely because of the extended essay. i've already switched my topic three times! so right now im doing a psych paper but im not too sure on a topic/ how narrow my topic has to be. i'm thinking about doing something like how does the hospital environment affect patients' healing rates? anyone know of any good sources of info for something like that? or does that sound like an okay topic? i appreciate ANY advice thank you!!!
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Hey all, well like the topic says, I want to do my EE on business, and after some random research i decided i want to do an EE about how a crack on wallstreet affects the world economy...but im not too sure if a title like that is appropriate enough (cuz i dont think its narrow enough) also is such a topic considered Business or Economics???? any suggestions on how i should change my focus of the topic or title??? Thanks in advance people! A Victim Of IB
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How do Ifigure out if 25% of my paper is plagiarized or not? People are stating over and over that it can happen very often. Any suggestions?
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Hello everyone, I'm writing about the impacts of marriage, similar to a discussion in which I will talk about the positive and negative of marriage. Right now, to back up my positve stance, I need to find examples of criminals who, after marriage turned for the better. I am kind of lost so if anyone know one, please post here. Help is highly appreciated!!!
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Well my coordinator recently informed us that the new rubric for the EE is the same for every subject (http://turnerfentonib.com/docs/ee/Extended_Essay_Rubric.pdf). Does this mean its possible to do cross over subjects in an EE? (eg. bio and chem)
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I need to pick my topic NOW. And I'm sort of stuck in between those three. Idkk which one would be the easiest, most interesting and practical out of the three. I'm thinking English monarchies. So any advice? (:
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Hello everybody out there!!! I need your help! My problem is that I'm writing my essay right now but actually I don't know what the MİNİMUM word count for the EE is!!! Because I'm not sure if it is 3500..?!?! And the IBOs don't like essays which are under the minimum for sure!! SOOOOO please help me!!!! thank you very much!
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Hi, I was wondering whether or not I can consider more than one Physics topic in my EE? For example, using mechanics, electricity and quantum physics. This is because my EE topic is a system that is made up of many sub-systems that include different Physics topics. Thank You.
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Hello. I am a new member in this forum. My IB coordinator said that I am not allowed to do my extended essay in a subject that is not offered in school. I want to know if this is true or not. My EE is in design technology (a topic of my interest) but I don't have a supervisor in school to assist me. If anyone knows if what my coordinator said is true or not, please help me. Thanks, Rabih
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Our principal and IB coordinator say that starting IB First Examinations 2009, if you get a D in your EE, you lose your diploma. That's pretty scary, does anyone have any info on that? I haven't seen it in any IB regulations or anything but yea if our coordinator is saying it I doubt its false, or is it? P.S. It's funny. =P You can apply to a uni and go like "I got a 42 (which is straight 7's) in IB, but I failed to get the diploma."
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Hi! I'm writing my extended essay in physics. I was thinking doing something on bridges or dams or bicycle frames (statics). But I need a more narrow topic. "How the strength of a bridge is related to its design." isn't enough. Can anyone help? Or do you have other suggestions on not waaay to difficult topics withing mechanics.
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does this sound like a good topic for my extended essay? The history of history of latin americans on south florida politics, economics, and education.
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how long should it take and when should i start thinking about my extended essay? i am in my first year of IB and i am rather confused about deadlines and when i should start thinking of my extended essay. i am doing a bio EE and if anybody has suggestions on essay topics would you please advise me? Sam
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Hi everyone! I'm kinda stuck with my EE now, and time is running out... So, I've been doing my EE on loudspeakers. I started out by figuring out the frequency response of two speakers, but now I am in doubt if this will be enough. By research question goes along the lines of : Comparison of two loudspeakers in terms of f. r. After going through a lot of books, it seems that there really isn't much that I can write about it (since I mostly can only write that there is a difference between the speakers, and reason by telling it is because of the way they are made... this ee is quantitatively I believe). Now being done with all the measurements and such, I feel my E…
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Hey! I've now completed the first full draft of my Physics Extended Essay. I've heard a lot about people getting bad marks on Group 4 EEs due to their criteria, etc. This is my Extended Essay Supervisor's first experience with an IB EE, so I'm worried she will miss some criteria, etc. I've been wondering if it is okay for me to show the essay to someone else for feedback, and, if thats okay, if anyone here experienced with Physics EEs would be willing to do that. I'm just looking for basic, general feedback, and not line-by-line comments or anything.
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Hey guys, may I write using first person on my EE? My supervisor told me to explain how I became motivated and decided to study the topic in my abstract, and I cannot think of any possible way of writing that without using "me" or "I". It currently reads: "The motivation for this study came to me during a visit to an exhibition on da Vinci. (...) I then resolved to study the effects of (...)" etc. Any help is appreciated! Thanks.
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“To what extent do Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice live up to the responsibilities and duties put upon them as women, by society?” That above is my question (if anyone have a suggestion of how to re-write it into something less complex, feel free to tell me! Well, so to the problem: my first draft is due FRIDAY, and everything SUCKS. Therefore, I need to find a bunch of sub-questions which I can discuss in relation to the topic. The only one I have came up with yet is; Why dares Elizabeth risk saying no to Mr Collins when Charlotte does not? And a bunch of others on how Austen uses these characters to make a standpoint.. But, yo…
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Is MLA style a requirement for extended essays or are we free to do our own styling as long as its formal?
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OK. i know that quite a few people have been asking about the Maths EE already.. BUT. what if: i have a topic in mind that deals with probability in a kind of dice/gambling game. but somehow it seems to me like an extension of some kind of maths coursework in probability. of course, the depth to which i aim to reach is beyond what would be dealt with in an IA.. but should there be a greater contrast between the two? actually, this question can be applied to all subjects.. for e.g. what, apart from the technicalities of no of words, etc differentiates a history IA from an EE in history? i need to send in at least 2 possible topics in as soon as possible (…
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Math/Physics EE
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So I want to do an EE on either Math or Physics, I take both courses at HL and score well on them, and I really like the subjects. At least those basic requisites are met for me to consider those subjects as EE options. Thing is, as far as I know, nobody in my school, ever, has done an EE on Math, because the "simple" act of choosing an appropriate question seems insanely difficult. I guess this lies in the nature of Math, there can't really be much of your own investigation since when it comes to pure math, anything you do has probably already been done by someone two millennium ago or so. I was wondering if anyone could offer some ideas? I've read the EE booklet a…
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Hi, I'm doing my EE in Biology, and it requires doing statistics on my results...my question is, is it better to use a GDC or Excel in doing the calculations and just putting the final result with something like "done using Excel" or is it better to work out the calculations in the paper? Looking at old EE's i saw that people do either one, but the ones who worked out calculations had higher marks - does IB mark down for not working them out? thanks
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hey guys! I'm writting my EE about the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb...is anybody else writting an EE about aomething simmiliar?? I mean...egypt, Tutankhamun, etc., ...we could share opinions, information and so
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I know that some yrs ago, you were able to combine two subjects and do an EE on the two. but now you can't (? -can somebody confirm this for me?) so if that's the case, i'm thining of doing a maths EE.. but i'm also interested in chemistry.. so i was thinking of doing something about the energy levels within an atom (bohr's model) and the quantum numbers, etc. . *note how vague the above is, i've really only started looking at it today, so excuse.. ^^ ;; but it'd be from a mathematical point of view.. how should i formulate the topic? and also: as i was discussing the above with my maths teacher, we began to talk about how much one topic can be enti…
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My EE is on the US in the Korean War and I have 3 potential questions. As you should know the question is worth I think 4 or 5 marks out of the total...i forget the total...like 36 or something. 1: To what extent was the US intervention into the Korean War an extension of the Truman Doctrine? 2: To what extent was the US intervention into the Korean War due to the Truman Doctrine, the United Nations, Korea's strategic placement within Asia, and the Document NSC-68? 3: To what extent was the US intervention into the Korean War inevitable? Hopefully I can pick one before the 26th: when it is due. Thanks to everybody who can help me.
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Hi, so basically my 1st draft is due in a week,been procrastinating since summer doing it,ive done my experiment though,so that out of the way,my topic is the effect of different mineral concentrations in fertilizers on plant growth,nice and simple too,so basically my question is what kind of layout do i follow? do i do it like a lab with aim,hypothesis,materials methods etc and so on? thus far ive got about 600 or so words which is at least a start. any help on thus will greatly boost my confidence in at least getting a 28 in IB,lol
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hello guys, can any of you write for me the areas that i am allowed to write about in my EE on Language b ( English) thanks alot in advance.
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I was thinking of doing my EE in either History or English A1. I was also interested in Politics or Film but I have studied neither of these subjects and this would be a detriment. So it seems to be down to just History or Language A1 and I have to know my topic by next Friday because apparently we're spending the whole day researching and planning the essay: 1/5 of our total time allowed on the EE... So for A1 I was thinking of a novel comparison, having studied [i]Nineteen Eighty-four [/i](and in depth by myself in the oral presentation) and I thought of choosing [i]We[/i] by Yevgeny Zamtayin. But I just realised an essay in A1 must feature literature originally writ…
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Ok, last week, our IB co-ordinator talked to us new Ib-ers about the Extended Essay... It sounds kinda scary but fun too. So I wish to do medicine in uni after IB. Would the university I am applying to see the detailed result of my EE? Would they, at least know which subject I wrote the EE in?
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Hi! I have a couple of problems: I read on one of the posts that you cannot write an EE if you've used the book you've submmited material on. My problem is that I changed teachers this year and since my former teacher assured me we wouldn't be doing King Lear in class, I did my EE on this book... but the second teacher changed his mind and he put King Lear in part 3 (oral commentary)--I was half way through my essay when this happened. By the time I do my commentary, my EE will be done, but what happens if I have to do it on King Lear by chance? Will this count as submitting work and an EE on the same book? And finally, do you think this question (well, not actually…
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The research question: "What is the best business to occupy the top floor of The City Tower?" The City Tower is basically a new office building located in the center of the city in Jakarta, Indonesia. Their top floor is unoccupied and the owners are planing to work with a restaurant owner make a restaurant there. There are 2 candidate restaurants, and if there are no agreements met, the owners will make the space as an office are instead. I am basically going to use payback period, SWOT, PEST, the owner's prediction on the outcome, and possibly ARR and NPV of the three options (the 2 candidate restaurants and the office). The best result of the report will b…
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Well bascially, the title says it all. When would be the best time to start planning EE.??? I just entered grade 11 meaning that i don't actually have experience in all the IB courses which could be a minor setback on choosing a topic. Would it be better to wait maybe until the second semester to get some grasps on each subjects??? Which subject have you lads written your EE on? Also, based on your experience which subject tends to be the easiest to write the EE???? What about English??? I'm so sorry for all the questions to possibly annoy you guys but they just keep pouring out and i feel like this is going to be the hardest thing to do in IB so i'm kind of stressed out.…
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I'm writing English A2 EE and I need some help from native speaker of Russian language. The point is whether English influenced Russian. In Polish mainly young people use a lot of English-origin vocabulary. I'd appreciate if somebody could contact me (preferably via email: [email protected]) and answer some questions. Is Russian influenced by English. I bet it is, so how deeply? And I need a list of about 10 words that are commonly used and derives from English. In Polish vocabulary such as: football, bye, cool, super, handmade, etc. is used, and I need a similar list, however from Russian language. Anyone eager to help? I'd really appreciate it.
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So I just finished my introduction in my extended essay and economics and realized something. Is it important to have quantitative data??... I think I only have qualitative data explaining my interviews and things. So please if any one has any ideas please let me know.
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I'm compiling my sources and information for History EE's bibliography, and I was wondering whether there is a source requirement or anything like that. Basically whether we have to have a certain number of a certain type of source, specifically primary sources. Thanks in advance.
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Hi! I'm doing my EE on Biology with "What is the effect of varying the concentration of Manganese in soil on seed germination and plant growth". I'm mostly done and I think I can jot down the abstract today in about an hour. The thing is, I heard people discussing if the raw data count as words or not in Group 4 EEs. e.g. If you have 100 numbers, each representing the fresh weight of the plants, do they count as 100 words? Please help! If they do count as words, I have way too many.. If not, I have way too less....
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[size=3]hey guys, I am currently in my second year of IB, and haven't even started my extended essay. At the end of last year I proposed a research question which i though would work out, which was how does the elasticity of a material affect its ability to reduce noise, but I found this to broad. Over the summer I started thinking about the specifying my research question more, so I decided that id focus on sound absorption. Therefore my current research question is how is the molecular structure of porous materials ideal for sound absorption. I can test this by building a a wooden tunnel in an L shape and lining it with different porous materials ie carpet, Styrofoam…
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My EE is due in a few days and my topic is on the change in Soviet Censorship during the Glasnost reform policy which was introduced in 1985 to the fall of the Soviet. I just realized, is the time period too close to the present be considered for a history essay? I'm panicking so much right now because it's due in a few days and I have already pretty much written 4000 words on the subject.
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Hi I just have a few questions about my EE topic. I was thinking of doing something like "Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution". But then I read in the Extended Essay Syllabus about essays from group 2: "it is essential that the focus remains on the culture of the language concerned." The Russian Revolution is not really English culture, but the book itself is written in English and takes place in England - so do you think it is an ok topic? They also say that "Students may choose to analyse texts in a detailed literary fashion, or they may use literary texts as a means of exploring the target language or its culture and society. " I'm very confused right now, so…
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