#IB Extended Essay

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Mastering the IB Extended Essay: Tutoring in Academic Success

The International Baccalaureate (IB) Extended Essay (EE) is a pivotal component of the IB Diploma Program, challenging students to explore a self-selected topic within one of their subjects in depth. This 4,000-word research project not only tests students’ analytical, research, and academic writing skills but also prepares them for the demands of higher education. Successfully completing the…

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Mastering the IB Extended Essay: Tutoring in Academic Success

The International Baccalaureate (IB) Extended Essay (EE) is a pivotal component of the IB Diploma Program, challenging students to explore a self-selected topic within one of their subjects in depth. This 4,000-word research project not only tests students’ analytical, research, and academic writing skills but also prepares them for the demands of higher education. Successfully completing the…

[schoolchaos]

Mythology and history based musicals are my true love.

[poet-guy]

will my EE most likely be about ACD's queer coding? Yes, fuck you. My country may hate gay people (esp in education) but if no one's got me I know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's got me

[rxm3]

writing an academic paper on the westend 2011 much ado about nothing is crazy I'm here fighting every urge to quote a review that says "it's worth the admission fee just to see [David Tennant] in a miniskirt and boob tube."

[rainbluealoekitten]

hey so i don't know you at all, but i saw on an old post that you did an IB eng lang+lit extended essay,,, and if you have ANY tips on choosing a topic for that i would literally appreciate it so much,, i have to choose my topic in the next 24 hours (procrastination </3) and i have vague ideas but no clue how i could structure them or what kinds of topics the IB prefers :/ literally any help, via dm or answering the ask, would be so so helpful ((( but no pressure ofc :] )))

omg hi babes, i'd be super happy to give my advice and i hope i'm not too late?

ok so you know the 3 categories i'm assuming? idk what your school is like but if you need more guidance on the ee in general, go to philpot's step by step guide

when you're told to pick something that interests you, DO THAT. you will spend MONTHS on this topic, researching and writing for hours upon hours, so you HAVE to be invested. even if you love love a topic, you might still struggle for a variety of reasons (my tips on this later on). regardless, you are on tumblr engaging in fandom and media for a reason. WHAT is that reason? what compels you? what themes, character dynamics, settings, motifs compel you? what shows, what books, what films? what about in lang and lit class? do you like ad analysis and the societal implications? do you prefer minute details that make a movie just so so good (e.g. lighting)? did you watch the dead poets society and you've been reading poetry aloud ever since?

the ib requires you to write about an "acclaimed" literary or non literary work, which gives you a LOT of choice. you could write about doctor who, for example.

i'll explain my process when i was picking my topic.

i have always liked greek mythology (like a LOT) and my favourite figure is akhilles. i decided i wanted to do something exploring his relationship with patroklos, but alas! i could not look at the iliad as it was not written in english originally, which didn't fit into either cat 1 or cat 2. so... why not the song of achilles? it's well known and acclaimed, plus would be more fitting for a dp level of literary analysis. but how to explore the characters? well... what else was i interested in?

what makes a character a hero?

this was the central question. i ended up changing the specifics of my question a million times which... don't do that. eventually, my question was (more or less), "how does miller conform to and subvert the characteristics of a hero through characterisation?" (that was not the question. i promise that the actual question was a million times better).

NOW. my extra note.

before you start researching and outlining, here is something i recommend you do before starting, based on my own issues. now, i did get a predicted (knock on wood) A, but after way too much deliberation.

make a list of your strengths and of your weaknesses. consider literary analysis vs diegetic and non diegetic sound analysis (idk if that's even what it's called but yk). consider time management skills. consider outlining skills. consider research skills. what do *you* need in terms of help and support from your supervisor? what do you need to do to help yourself? for example, i should have forced myself to pick a question from the start, before even starting research. this is an issue i have in other subjects too, and caused me a lot of grief for my history ia. i also asked my ee supervisor to help me come up with a realistic, step-by-step schedule bc i struggle assigning myself deadlines.

for the second part of your ask, structure is going to be super dependent based on your topic and category. i recommend reading examples similar to your topic (don't waste time reading ad analysis if you're doing poetry aha). i did mine with bg info on the classical view of heroes, then each bp was a different aspect (first conformity, then subversion). i have a friend who wrote hers on a feminist film and her bg was about feminist theory, with mentions of that time period, which then informed her fairly standard-structure analysis.

let me know if this helps in any way at all, and don't hesitate to reach out again if needed! i wish you the absolute best with the ee and dp more broadly :)

[cantpickyourgenre]

forever troubled by the modern takes on Pride and Prejudice that try and push full blame for the first proposal not working out on one character or the other instead of recognizing that the whole point is that they were both kind of in the wrong and blinded by things and being prideful.

[calversstudy]

officially, i'm in the DP year 2. it's been two weeks, i'm so tired, and i have too many deadlines...

extended essay is killing me, i swear

[shadessallow]

"oh you need to check your EE for any kind of plagiarism"

Nah bro, I'm autistic, writing a 4000 word essay about Twin Peaks was absolutely the most pleasurable experience ever.

[calverr]

the feeling when you finally decide on the topic of your extended essay>>>>>>

[chaotic-omnisexual-squirrel]

i cannot get through a minute of any queer or horror related film without writing something down for my extended essay

i'm a little bit obsessed

[importantthingshurtsometimes]

you GUYS i just started writing the first draft of my tok exhibition script AND the first draft of my extended essay on 'on earth we're briefly gorgeous'.....god is making her weakest soldiers fight the hardest battles.

[poor-little-greene]

now tell me why I’ve written two extended essays worth of waffle in a single comparative study???

[defenestrationtactics]

lil bit of a rant but i'm doing this 'mini thesis' thing for grade 12 right. like i need to do it to get my diploma. and for this essay you can research ANYTHING you want from ANY subject so naturally i chose film. my topic revolves around Good Omens. it's changed a few times but now my research question is "For what purposes does Good Omens showrunner Neil Gaiman use mundane symbolism to convey the allegory of religious disaffiliation?". I still don't quite like how it's worded but i had to change my old wording because my supervisor is a little bitch. on the topic of him, he's also fucked up my entire thing. there a multiple film supervisors for this assignment, and i previously had another one (who was amazing btw), but this guy decides to come back to our school from leave and he HANDPICKED 5 students to supervise. one of them was me. this guy then calls me over in class and basically rips apart my entire topic saying i shouldn't talk about mundanity or disaffiliation (which i'm not taking out of the question because fuck him) and that he knows more about those things because he's the son of a pastor. dude. if you're the son of a pastor and you feel this strongly about religion (which is fine, until you start fucking me around), don't pick the one thesis that is focusing on how religion is basically just a cult and can be pretty harmful - eg. why these characters are disaffiliating.

anyway, im just super pissed off and i guess i've wrote all this now so... sorry. i don't really expect anyone to read it anyway just me trying to rant to the void.

[bildadtheshuhitestudies]

GUYS I FINISHED MY EE RPF!!!!!!

[rxm3]

An EE is never fun and games don’t ever lull yourself in a false sense of security