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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Soon it’s time for the to choose subject for EE. I would like to hear your advice. In the future my goal would be to study Business. However, I’m not doing EE on Economics as I think I have enough studying in it with all the IA’s. Psychology is one possible, like doing topic eg ”psychology in business / negotiation” but I’m not sure whether it will benefit me enough, as it’s mostly about theories and studies in Psychology. English would be the last option. I heard it would be easy to get good grade, am I right? I’m good at analyzing stuff, but the question is about what topic I would choose in English. Eventually, are US/UK universities interested in what my EE topi…
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Hi, I'm doing an extended essay about a book. I did a lot of researches and I have like 15 sources (including the definitions I searched). Is it "bad" that I researched so much ? Like, it's literature and I read somewhere that it shouldn't be too much sources and there should be more thinking and analysis from the person who is writing an EE in literature. Thank you advance, I'm really nervous
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Hi! I wanted to know your opinion about my problem: I'm writing an extended essay in literature and I wrote about smth I read on the internet. Like, I took the main idea but I didn't write the way the person wrote it. Should I still cite the source or can I keep it as it was my idea? Thank you in advance for your answers!
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I changed the subject of Extend Essay from math to language A in the September of 2nd IB, how to write reflection in this case. Should i write the first reflection about math, and then explain that i changed it to language A in the 2nd reflection. Or should i write explain it in the first reflection to make sure that the reflection shows how i work out the final job so don´t waste too much words on the first idea . Since my languageA is in Chinese, my math is in English. If i need to write the first reflection about math, should i use English or Chinese?
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Hello guys, I just realised that I made a mistake while using a formula for my science EE. I used a formula that proved my hypothesis, but for a slightly different reason than the one I thought and justified. I was not "supposed" to use this formula because it didn't match with my theory. Long story short, the reason why it proved my hypothesis was exactly that it didn't match with the theory. But I thought that it proved my hypothesis for a different reason. So this is clearly a mistake I made. My EE supervisor didn't say anything (I don't know if he noticed it or not). Is this a reason to fail the EE, or will I just lose points for this? I'm hoping that this …
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If I'm comparing two texts for my English extended essay, what sources would I use other than the books?
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At first I was intending to investigate the effects of vinegar of various kinds on human health, since it is a very open-ended topic I can work with. In accordance to this purpose, I calculated their enthalpy changes of neutralization with 1mol NaOH and conductivity WITHOUT DEALING W/ ANYTHING ON THE PH, following the path of "CH3COONa formed after the reaction affecs the strenght of the acid in X way and therefore changes the blood pH slightly/tremendously in large amounts blah blah blah". I haven't even started and it's due in 2 days lmao so I might add a bit more perspective than just blood. It's safe to procrastinate here, right? However, I'm concerned that it wo…
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What are EE math topics I should avoid? Is writing about RSA cryptosystem or four-colored map too common?
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I don't know if I can do research based on just the mathematical analysis and interpretations of a physics concept for my EE, rather than conducting any sort of experiment or data processing. My teacher says the IB won't expect a theoretical/pure mathematical paper. Is that true?
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Hey guys! Could you give me a hand? I'm very interested in aviation and more specifically in aerospace medicine. So I wanted to choose a topic related to it focusing in one of the sciences for my EE. Could you guys give me some ideas? Cheers!
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"In what way did the Stalin-Era communist principles differ from Karl Marx's?" Obviously this is just something I thought of randomly and so the wording isn't what I'd want for the final product, but I was wondering if it was too vague or too specific?
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I need to change my RQ a little bit probably... I know it is not good to make an EE of science without doing experiments yourself, but I won't change my mind. My RQ is Why are the physicochemical effects of celestial bodies important to generation of life? I will narrow the life, but I don't know if I should focus on a certain physical or chemical effect, since the information might not be enough. Celestial bodies I think maybe using one astro, or using more and comparing them.(I think Jovial and/or Saturnine systems). Would appreciate some help...
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Hi, Y'all! I am doing my extended essay in English literature. My supervisor has totally bailed out on me. And i dont know was to how i am supposed to write it. Could someone please help with the outline/ structure of it; what i mean to say is that what are the different paragraphs (like the introduction...etc..) and how many words they are supposed to be. Please give me some guidelines...I am very clueless. Thanks in advance!
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The current topic of my current chemistry extended essay is the optimisation of the voltage produced by a half-cell by changing the temperature and electrolyte of the cell and using that to mathematically model the output voltage produced by the cell as a function of those variables. However, during research I learnt about the existence of the Nernst Equation and realised I was simply investigating that. I also found a few threads online of people who did this topic as an IA instead of an extended essay which leads me to fear my Extended Essay topic is too simple. Could anyone give me advice on whether this would be a suitable extended essay topic. If not, are there…
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I'm currently working on 2 different EE topics right now because one seems to be too hard, whereas the other one is too easy. My supervisor is new so is unable to offer any help. The harder topic is on the illegal waste disposal in southern Italy (economics and chemistry) and I wanted to look at how the burning of waste in landfills happens and is harmful/how it contaminates the environment. Then I would talk about the tax Italy has on waste and how does it influence this. The alternative would be to talk about diesel (still chemistry and economics): why does it work better in cars than gasoline, what are the products of its combustion, and why are they harmful. The…
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Hello! I read online that when you cite an online source for the EE, you ought to write the date when you last accessed this source. I wrote my EE in Chemistry, and I used some online sources, but since the referencing style I used was APA6, I did not write the date when I accessed my sources. I only followed the structure of APA6. That is, I wrote in-text citations like (author, year, p. number) for printed sources, followed by a reference in the end as: Author. (Date). Name of book (edition). City, state: publisher. Now, for online sources I wrote the in text citations as: (author, year), and in the references section I wrote the reference as: Author. (Date). …
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Hey, I don't have a lot of time and I'm desperately searching for my EE topic. I've been thinking about applications of continued fractions or looking for the best way to define pi number by probability. I dunno what to do with the first topic to show my personal engagement and I'm not sure whether the second idea isn't too simple and should be used rather to write an IA. Can you comment on them and/or eventually give some ideas? :/ I feel like committing a suicide but I like this subject... Any tips to survive?
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Hey! I was thinking about writing my economics extended essay about the market of vegan products. Is it a good decision? My topic would be 'How does the growing popularity of veganism affect the market of vegan products in my country?' Is this a good topic for economics ee or would you advise something else? Or maybe you have any advice in general? Thanks for your help!
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Hi everyone, I am struggling to find sources for my EE, they are either too expensive or unreliable. Especially when I am trying to find sheet music for a song. For example, I am trying to find a full version of "I'm Forest...Forest Gump" sheet music by Alan Silvestir but all I could find is sheet music for piano only. If I want full versions of every instrument(just like when you do an analysis on a classical score), where can I find them. Free ones would be great! Thank you guys
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Wanted to do an EE on anime however since we don't have film studies in our school I couldn't do an EE on anime as a whole. Thus leaving music, is it possible I could look at the music in anime? I have no idea on a question though, perhaps the evolution of it throughout the years or its effect on the anime itself.
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Hello! For my Physics EE, I referenced every theory I used etc, but I also referenced the formulas. For example, I would write Newton's second law, and then I'd reference a book where this formula can be found, followed by an exact page. I did that for every formula pretty much. Is this a problem? I know that in some cases referencing even the basic formulas is not necessary to do, but my question is, will it be a problem that I did this? Thanks in advance!
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I have a few more days until I have to decide on my Extended essay topic. I am torn between choosing Business (HL) or English (SL), but I'm not sure if I can do my extended essay for an SL class. I most likely want to study Business or marketing in university; however, I just thought about a really interesting idea for an extended essay that only applies to my English Lang&Lit subject. I know it'll be better for me to pick Business as that is the direction I want to go towards to in the future, but I feel like I will be way more interested in writing my extended essay in English.
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Hello! I read somewhere in this group that ManageBac has a plagiarism checker of some sort. My school is using ManageBac, but other than that I doubt that they will use any plagiarism checker to scan our EE, which worries me. I really want my EE (and ToK Essay and IAs) to be scanned before turned in to the IB. This is why I would like some further information on ManageBac's plagiarism checker. Does my school have to purchase it seperately? (because if so, I doubt it will). Or is it incorporated into ManageBac, which means that my EE, ToK Essay and IAs will be scanned for plagiarism no matter what? (I really hope that this is the case). Thanks a lot, and have a …
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Is it preferable to focus on one book or include multiple books in my extended essay?
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Hello! For my EE, I used a picture, but the website where I found it says "all rights reserved". My question is, can I still use the picture as long as I reference it, and provide the link of the website where I found it, along with acknowledging the author? I am aware of the "fair use" law, but I don't live in the US. I live in Hungary, and I'm from Greece. Will I still be covered by this law? Or by a similar one? I have no intent of "harming" the owner of the photograph, I don't present it as my own, and I'm using it for academic purposes. Is it fine that I used the picture, since I acknowledged that it's not my work? I have already submitted the EE, so dele…
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Hello everyone, I'm currently writing my chemistry EE and in the middle of lowering my word count. However, I had an urgent question that really confused me. I have a large table outlining all of my experimental variables that's quite long (686 words)-- would this contribute towards my word count? I know the IB says that tables aren't included in the word count, but then I also came across a section in the IB guide that states "tables with significant words should be included as part of the word count." So, does anyone know for certain whether or not my variable table counts towards the word count? A fast response would be very much appreciated. Thank …
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Hey, I don't have a lot of time and I'm desperately searching for my EE topic. I've been thinking about applications of continued fractions or looking for the best way to define pi number by probability. I dunno what to do with the first topic to show my personal engagement and I'm not sure whether the second idea isn't too simple and should be used rather to write an IA. Can you comment on them and/or eventually give some ideas? :/ I feel like committing a suicide but I like this subject... Any tips to survive?
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HELP! I´m writing my EE esasy in English and I was wondering if any of you have any databases/ pages where I could find any reliable sources ?
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Hello! For my EE, I included a picture, but I'm not sure if I cited it properly. I'm using APA format. I got the picture from an online website, namely an online article which contained this image. Officially, for APA format I need to write the image's CREATOR'S name. But what I did in my references section, was to reference the website as I would normally reference a website, and I wrote [Digital Image] afterwards to show that from the said website, I got the said image. In the in-text citation I used the citation that I would use to reference the website itself. So, (author name, year). Would that be fine? I mean, referencing the website from where I r…
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Hello, I'm half way through my first year in the DP and I'm still struggling to find an interesting topic for EE on English. I wanted to take a look at The Great Gatsby, The Yellow Wallpaper or The Lord of the Flies but my sister recommended me not to do so because these texts are studied throughout the years of IB and the markers would expect an exceptional outcome towards the essay; essentially making it a little difficult for me to ace. I'm currently reading about Burmese Days by George Orwell, it talks a lot about gender, race, culture, imperialism and etc. but I'm not too sure if I'll be sticking to this one. My only option now is to take a look at other n…
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Hey! I wrote my EE in Physics, and I counted the words to be 3989, so that's what I wrote it is. But honestly, there is a high chance that I miscounted something, cause the word count gets confusing with whether I should include certain formulas, in-text formulas, headings, equation numberings, sub-headings, footones, in-text citations etc etc (you get the point.). I tried to be as correct as possible with this, but many of my teachers gave me contradicting information, and the internet didn't help that much either. So it's more than likely that I actually have a different word count than 3989, I'd say something ranging from 3950 to 4020. Will there be severe consequ…
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Hi, I want to write my extended essay for English B, and my topic is about the book and the film "Gone with the wind", I choose it because I love this book and I read it for several times. I have a research question: To what extent does Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell show the theme of racism in US culture? But I'm not sure this is good enough or not to discuss and since I'm not from the US, I don't really know the American culture. I also want to talk about the sexism, do you think talk about sexism is better than racism? OR DO I NEED TO CHANGE TO A BETTER RESEARCH QUESTION? please help me to value, thank u and love u guys!
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Hey! I used APA format for my EE, but I realised I made a small mistake. When you use APA format, you need to provide the year of publication. But for one source (out of the about 15 I used) I accidentally put in a wrong date. It said that the article was last modified in 2018, so I put 2018 as a date. But I found out that this is not supposed to be the date of publication, and therefore I should have put (n.d.). What's the severest consequence that may follow after this? Should I worry? Thanks!
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Is it possible for me to do my ee on illustration? If so, what areas of illustration should I focus my question on? I am currently thinking of doing color-related or like the techniques illustrators used to create a certain effect that sort of topics.
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I have no idea what subject I want to do my extended essay in but, I have a question. My friend recommended that I go the history route with it; however I have no idea how to do that. Here’s my question: "To what extent was the use of human cadavers in automotive research, from 1960 to 1980, successful in improving the safety of vehicles?" I did submit this question to my history teacher to get his opinion and he said it wouldn’t work for history. I’m not really interested in anything else so someone please help me figure this out!
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heylo! i just joined this website so not sure if im posting in the right place hahah sorry. Anyways, I'm writing my EE and I know what I wanna do, I have heaps of information but I'm not sure if my research question is good enough.... basically looking at how traditional European portraits of women were created for a (typically male) spectator, this is made evident by the submissive expression (majority of the portraits have it), the arrangement of the figure (is displayed to the viewer), the lack of hair (hair being associated with sexual parts/passion and the lack of it is minimalised so the spectator has monopoly) blah blah blah this video explains it a lot better http…
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is the first year my school offers ESS as a science and I chosed this subject for my EE (a bit crazy I may acept). So like is the first year there is no examples for an EE in ESS. I would love to know if any of you know where I can find any example for it. Or anything that can help with my essay, because my teacher is so lost with this I feel like I am doing everything by myself. Any help is well recieved. Thank you.
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Hey! So I just submitted my physics EE, and I found out about the general concept of plagiarism and I'm kind of freaking out. So what happened is, I have a completely original topic for my EE, which I have done completely on my own. BUT, some parts of it coincide with an existing EE (which has a completely different, yet similar RQ). To be more specific, I have 6 sections, and only the 5th and 6th ones share some similarities. Now, since it is physics, the similarities is just using and explaining the theory. However, I have explained the theory in a relatively different context (as my RQ was different). But still, it being the same theory, there are inevitably a number o…
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Hi there, first time posting here. I'm writing a history EE (on primatologist Jane Goodall) and my plan is to do a few pages of exposition and then get into analysis. First, I was going to give a general overview of Goodall's life and stuff, and then get into my question (how did Goodall's individuality contribute to her success). Does that make sense? Does it go against some prescribed structure?
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I kind of want to do something based around the elements since it interests me and wouldn’t be that challenging for me to write about, what should I do? Also, does my essay need to be like an experiment?
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So I'm doing my EE in the subject of theatre and my topic is, "How does (insert costume designer name) design choices influence the audience's perception of character and mood in (insert name of the production)". I have a few costume designers that I would like to research on this topic. However, I don't know how to conduct my research. Do I need to see the whole show they costumed for? Do I just need to read the script and obtain all the photos of every costume in the production? I'm kind of lost, really appreciate any help! Also is it possible to do a costume designer that costumed for a movie and not a theatre production? Just wondering.
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Hey, I'm currently writing my EE and am stuck on the approach to fitting my Extended essay in the correct criteria. I am a music producer and have worked with synthesizers for years and thought it would be fitting to do my EE covering synthesizers. My title is "How does Compositional Techniques used in music technology in the mid-20th century compare to those in the last 20 years?" and I discuss the rise of modular synthesizers, Analogue synthesizers, aswell as the use of computer technology in the process of making music. Attached is a draft of what I have so far. My question is: is my approach and what I am doing so far acceptable to continue as other IB Mus…
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Hi everyone, I'm in my first year of the IB and so I am just getting started on my extended essay in history and have decided on the topic of the Cambodian Genocide under Pol Pot. However, I'm not sure what to have as my research question or whether the ideas that I do have are too broad for it, I would like to focus on the year zero policy and what actually happened but I don't want the essay to end up being very narrative as I know that's not what the IB seems to be looking for. I've made a list of some ideas for titles below and any input on which to choose or further suggestions for research questions would be greatly appreciated: 1) What was the year zero policy …
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I have to chose the topic for my EE! I would like to do it in spanish but im not sure about what I would like to do! I wanted to do in Zafon's book La sombra del Viento or about cultural things...any ideas? Thanks!
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Hello, all I am from India and my EE research question was:- What were the causes that led to the decline of Toys'R' us. My teacher says It's not good but I have already done a report on It so what can I do to change my research question into a better one with keeping the decline of Toys 'R' us in mind? Please help.
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So, I was doing an extended essay in Chemistry, but that didn't work out. Now I switched to English. I want to analyze two dystopian novels, and although I love 1984 I'm nervous that so many people write about it every year. I was thinking about using Oryx and Crake, by Margret Atwood, and 1984 (even though I'm hesitant I've already read it). My supervisor said it would be fine to use such a 'classic' as long as I can focus my essay on something interesting, and not as obvious. As for the actual essay I was thinking about comparing the romance in the two books, or just the relationships between men and much younger girls, maybe I could compare this? I was also thinking c…
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"To what extent was the cold war responsible for the separation between North Korea and South Korea?" is this too broad? please someone help how i should phrase my research question. I really do have interest and a lot of knowledge in this area (the Korean War) & (The Cold War)
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Hello, My EE is due tomorrow (exams May 2019). Unfortunately, I do not know if there is a specific way to format the cover page for a history essay-- my supervisor was unclear! I know that I need the research question, word count, and say the fact that it's a history essay, but past that, I'm unsure if there is anything else I need to include. Also, is there a standard format for the table of contents on the second page? Edit: One last question. Do page numbers have to be in the header or footer? Thank you!
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I really want to look that "Lord of the Rings" for my EE in English Literature, because I feel like there are so many different themes and aspects to delve into. Does anyone have an idea on how to make it more narrow? I was thinking of arguing against the idea of "authorial intent" and exploring the ways in which the series is a reflection of WWI and WWII
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