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.
2. Before doing anything, read the Extended Essay for Dummies thread. At the very least, we recommend you take a look at the 5 Cardinal Rules of the EE!
3. Before asking anything about format or requirements for the extended essay, we suggest you read the IB Extended Essay Guide first (which you can download from here).
4. Make your thread titles descriptive. At the minimum, mention the subject area and if you have one, the topic! For instance "History EE on Nazi Propaganda" is better than "EE help please". The people who know about history and nazi propaganda will click on the first thread and probably miss the second one. Help us to help you - give it an accurate title!
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Hi people. I'm writing my extended essay in music, comparing classical counterpoint with counterpoint we find in pop music. Any tips on what the examiners are looking for in an EE in music? I don't have much to compare with and my music teacher has only supervised one. Thanks
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I am writing my Extended Essay in chemistry and the research question is: “Determining the kinetics order of degradation of ascorbic acid under normal storage conditions and the cooking conditions”. Is this specific or interesting enough?
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Physics/Math EEssay Help?
by Guest Murasaki no Ryuu- 3 replies
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Fibonacci sequence and Phi, cuz they are intricately related. My Theory of Knowledge teacher has taken it upon himself to become the unofficial IB coordinator at my school. He says that my question is flawed. (He said at the beginning of the summer that it was okay. But I had to talk to my Advisor.) Well, I looked it over with my advisor. He didn't give me much help. SO I proceeded to research and such. Aaand... I have about three pages of virtually nothing; background information and the like. Then my advisor left me during the summer. I didn't know this. I should have probably kept better track of him. But he left. And I have a new math teacher and mentor that like... h…
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English EE - Help Please!
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Ok so i'm looking for my EE topic, and i have absolutely no ideas. I was thinking that i wanted to do something with brave new world, but i have quickly found that it is one of the most overused topics. I would still like to do something with it, but only if i could find an original topic. Besides that, i also was thinking about something by Virginia Woolf, since i very much liked Mrs. Dalloway and the stream of consciousness technique. Otherwise, I am completely open to suggestions. Anything would be helpful! Okayy so i thought about it some more and i think i want to do something about the theme of death, or fear of death. I was thinking i could use Mrs. Dalloway and H…
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Hey, guys. I was just wondering if it is possible to do an EE for Spanish Ab Initio? I know that you normally do your EE for one of your HL subjects, yet Sp Ab Initio is only available at SL. So... Is it possible? :innocent:
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English A1 EE question
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Do you think it is very wrong/inconsistent to compare two works that are entirely different in everything but the topic i've chosen?? I was thinking of doing Ian McEwan's Amsterdam as a single work (I had several topics there) but then I thought if the work isn't way too short/unknown for that, or the subject too narrow. So now I'm thinking of comparing the role of Molly Lane (Amsterdam) and Clarisse McClellan (Fahrenheit 451) on the plot/ the actions of the main characters. The thing is, both novels are way too different, the first being contemporary & satirical, the other futuristic, dystopic & philosophical. Do you think it is an advantage - attempting to find …
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I was going through my guiding papers for EE and was wondering about a certain thing. When you write you EE in literature (whether group 1 or 2) - do you need to mention/discuss the method? Also, evaluation of discussion, implication and such - are they needed? In my papers, it says so but while I do understand why you need it in sciences and certain social sciences, I don't understand how you add evaluation and implication for a literature analysis. Also, my only method was basically close-reading of the novel. I read the novel first, then read a bunch of essays and articles by critics and then re-read my novel very closely and analysed.
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ok so im doing mine on : How disposable income and personal attitude affect the Art market? i tried to look for infornation on the internet, and cant find none. thank god my parents are art dealer, so i decided to interview them. do u guys have any idea how i can improve or how to plan this thing. Im so lost!!!!!! aarrrggghhhhh
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Visual arts EE?
by Guest li2- 4 replies
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Hey guys! I'm natalia from Indonesia. I'm a year 11 IB student. This year,we,IB students,have to finish the EE and CAS, so when we're year 12, we just focus in the assessments and exams. I wanna ask you guys, i choose visual arts for my EE and i wanna write about photography. Is it OK? coz i think it's difficult and NOW i'm confused. Coz i dunno how to write and talk bout it in 4000 words and what i'm going to talk about. Can you give me advice?
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Physics EE on Projectile Motion
by Guest bearking19- 0 replies
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Hi guys i am new to this forum and am currently finishing year 1 and starting year 2. Right now my EE research is basically about projectile motion but in the presence of air resistance. I was thinking of a research question such as "Model of projectile motion in the presence of air resistance" Maybe finding the behaviour of a projectile in air or the flight path and come up with an equation to determine the position or range if you only have certain information available. But all of this done with drag force taken into consideration. I was also thinking of something similar like "The relationship between speed of projectile and drag force". Could the second topic be l…
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hey everyone, i am halfway through the first year of IB, and still haven't found an extended essay topic. i took mine from english (a2) and am thinking of doing an literary analysis... however my supervisor refused all of my choosen topics (on Harry Potter and Lord of The Rings and so on) because they weren't literary enough, and i'm supposed to give her a topic until friday. i thought about doing something about jane austen, who is one of my favourite authors, but i have no idea where to start (not to mention my supervisor's not helping at all). i'm desperate, so please, please help me. anything that is jane austen, or not.
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English EE on 1984
by Guest monkeenoodles- 2 replies
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Hello! Newbie here! Anyways, I'm planning on doing my EE in English A1 on the novel "1984" by George Orwell and I haven't got a research question yet! *panics* I mean I know I want to focus on the theme and/or the characterisation in the book but I don't know specifically what my research question/topic should be...so anyone...help? I mean "1984" is kind of hard because it's so philosphical and political and so and so and since it's supposed to be about literary appreciation I don't really know how to do it without being too philosophical/political and I'm scared I wont do the whole appreciation thing because I'd be too distracted. So...help? If you do I will actually lo…
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want to make my EE about this but.....
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I want to make my EE about social psychology, with something about homosexuals like their life, what things do they have to deal with, nature vs nurture etc etc, but I dont know how to cover that gay EE hehe, i was thinking about “Psychology—Social psychology – Stereotypes and prejudices on minor groups such as invalidates, migrants, women “or”homosexuals. Im really interested on that subject but you know they’ll criticize me…. How can i do it??
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Does your school require you to do EE Presentations? This was actually my first all-nighter. And get this, I actually didn't even finish my presentation that night. My friend from Calgary was online so I spoke to him all night haha. Anyways, we had from 9-12 to do our presentations. I was only halfway through in the morning so I brought my laptop in and worked on my presentation in the IB Room until 10:30. Since I was so high on coffee, I figured the best thing to do is to present before I crash. So, at 10:31 I presented. I got my mark back... 94% HAHAHAHA. That's better than those suckers who did their EE over the summer. One girl worked on her presentation 2 weeks befo…
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How can I write a 4000 word essay on Harry Potter?
by Guest AbbieOnFire- 7 replies
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Oh, hi! So I need to have an EE topic and a super-visor by monday... and I'm still a on the fence on what to write about. I'm thinking of either ITGS [ The negative effects Video Gaming has on people and society as a whole ] or English--- something, anything to do with Harry Potter. Since I managed to write up an arguement on how Aunt Petunia could be a witch ranking up to 8200 words over the course of one weekend, I feel confident that a Harry Potter EE would be easy enough. Trouble is, I don't know what the IB would want in a HP EE. =\ Help?
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History EE Format
by Guest qiubai- 12 replies
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Hey, is anyone doing the history extended essay? does anyone know the prefered word count for each parts of the essay? oh, forgot to mention, my teacher told me that the parts of the essay I have to include are: intro summary of evidence evaluation analysis conclusion My teacher also needs me to do an abstract for my essay. I heard that the format of the extended essay is pretty much like the History internal assessment. so, concerning the plan of investigation, is it just the abstract then?
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i know this gets asked quite a lot, but i can't help it - need to hear the opinion of experienced EE writers. my topic is: Government control and acts of rebellion in dystopic novels with specific reference to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and George Orwell's 1984. Do you think the scope is too broad? Also, I know Orwell gets done quite a lot, so... could that really lower my chances of getting a good grade? And generally, is the question posed well, in an IB manner? Thanks to anyone who bothers and helps me ease the stress
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Social anthropology extended essay
by Guest ava- 5 replies
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i really need help im trying to think of a topic for my extended essay i want to do some thing involving social athropology but that dosnt involve field work any help ??
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EE in math
by Guest SuperDuperTimmy- 1 reply
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I've taken on the daunting challenge of doing the Extended Essay in math, and I think i have the topic down although I haven't quite figured out the title yet, but im doing the aplications of prime numbers in public key crytography (specifically the RSA algorythm) but what I'm worried about is that IB asks for some sort of mathematical operations (right?) which I have no idea how to include, any suggestions? I surrender to your will
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Physics - Laser - Need a thesis?
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I've been writing an Extended Essay in Physics, and have been working with the local Defence Research Establishment on a 2.1 um Ho:YAG laser. We've been determining how the thermal effects in the laser affect its beam. The only problem: I didn't have any idea on what the result was going to be. How the heck am I supposed to write a thesis? (which I only found out due to this guideline). And the deadline is on Wednesday. But do I really need one? Or have I misinterperated the definition of thesis?
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Do we need to make subsections for source evaluations and evaluation of the study? and what other subsections should we include? also, do those subsections count toward the word count? another thing is about format what is the order of the EE supposed to be? it's under my impression that it should be Title Page Table of Contents Abstract Body Source Evaluation Evaluation of study Work cited and no page numbers for Abstract and work cited, but they do appear in table of content and Abstract page should be numbered as page 3 please guys, correct me!!!
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English Extended Essay
by Guest fierybabe14- 4 replies
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I'm doing an English Extended Essay but I'm stuck as to what I should specifically look at or which book/s to focus on, are there any suggestions?
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EE in maths - Game theory
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Hey! I'm going my EE in maths and I'm not sure what the title should be. I want to write about the theory of games and apply it in a card game. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Does anyone have example of EE from business and management???
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Math EE help
by Guest AirRon23- 1 reply
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OK, so I'm doing a Math EE, and my teacher has never mentored before since our old math god teacher left last year. I chose game theory early on and I was really set on researching it with all my heart, but then i talked to my teacher for a while and he seemed to be discouraging me a lot because it has to be extremely math based and my topic was totally off. So now I guess i have to completely switch topics, not even game theory at all. I was hoping to do something marrying calc and stat but I can't seem to think of anything off the top of my head right now. Ill continue my hunt, but i was just wondering if anybody had any suggestions. *EDIT* Alright well i was playing ar…
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Hello all physicians I'm doing an EE on the stability of a bicycle My research question is What affects the stability of a bicycle more, the velocity or the diameter / thickness of the wheel? now which variable do u think would be better for the second one, the diamether/thickness? And when i mean stability i will say that the angle exceeds? the center of gravity. Any good suggestions for a feasible lab? it would be REALLY REALLY helpful!
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Hey! I am doing this in order for us to help each other when we are stuck at a point in our EE. Feel free to ask or help another fellow mate. Anyway I hope that you find it useful. I am writing my EE for English and I was wondering if anyone knows a book that discusses the sheer poverty any country's people endured during the 19th century. that is other than Oliver Twist and Les Miserables . ia m finally almost done doing it I am soo happy to get it over with AH!! I can fly!
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Arabic B EE help - ~Lc~
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The title clearly explains my situation!! I am stuck trying to find an appropriate topic for my arabic b EE. Many told me on TSR that LC is the best person to help me in this EE, since she did hers on the same subject. Help plz =[ Mod edit: There is no need to post the same thread 5 times. This account is subject to Admin moderation (for 5 days) of all your posts before they can appear on the forums. So just posting things once will be fine. We will come and approve of your post if it's legitimate and not spam. y i cant dl ee samples? More mod edit: Please read the FAQ and the Rules. Second part goes for the textspeak and double posting.
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Chemistry EE - Antiseptic properties of copper
by Guest twinklegirl500- 6 replies
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how do u include a lab report in the extended essay? my topic is on chemistry and my title is the antiseptic properties of copper. is that too broad? how specific do i need to get in my descriptions of the properties? does anyone have a sample chemistry extended essay that got at least a b?
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Psychology EE Help
by Guest pepsitwist28- 5 replies
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i need a guideline to follow.....anyone want to help? i'm doing a lit review in psychology, btw
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Ok, I don't know if I have posted this in the right place but here goes, Can somebody please explain the difference between these three! I've just done my EE and I have looked at other EE's and everyone does it differently? Please Explain, thank you.........
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Biology EE and Professional Reports
by Guest Gunslingerstyle- 0 replies
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Hi all, I've been working on a lot of research for an EE in Biology and I've essentially gotten up to writing out my introduction for it. Strangely, the structure for a Bio EE that I had in mind seemed an awful lot like the structure used in the types of professional papers that you see on, say, PubMed. Is this basically the structure that the IB is asking for you to utilize in the essay?
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Chem EE or psychology EE ? :S
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