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I’m going to be honest with you all: when I was studying the IB (not too long ago I’ll have you know…), I would often moan to my friends about TOK. It wasn’t that I found TOK boring, far from it actually— I loved the full-blown arguments that would always ensue in a TOK class—
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When it comes to writing a brilliant first draft of your Extended Essay, or any essay, I fully believe that a solid structure is one of the surest guarantees of success there is. It’s the skeleton of the essay that makes it into a fully formed being instead of a pile of jelly. And the
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Welcome back to our step-by-step guide to the Extended Essay! So far in this series we’ve covered how to choose your topic and get on with your research. Here in Part 3 I want to talk all about how to make sure you have the perfect question. I know. I’ve mentioned the
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Revision isn’t boring always!
Everyone at Lanterna remembers what it was like doing the IB. We also know what it takes to succeed, and that is why we’ve made it our mission to support all of you still ‘in the trenches’. In this blog series we’re asking you to send in all the questions you’ve been meaning to ask about getting
How to write a good TOK essay
Hey guys! Here are some useful tips for writing TOK essays. Enjoy!
· Try and stick to the word limit. This is super important. You should try and write 1400-1600 words per essay, as the word limit is 1600 words. However, If you go over the limit by I don’t know, 50ish words, its okay, there is no need for you to delete anything.
· Introduction (between 200-250 words)
Ø DEFINITIONS, DEFINITIONS, DEFINITIONS. Whenever you get a TOK essay title the first thing that you have to do is to read it thoroughly and identify the key words. For example, if you were given the title: - “There are only two ways in which humankind can produce knowledge: through passive observation or through active experiment.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? –What are the key words here? The key words are clearly passive observation and active experimentation. You should therefore try to come up or look up appropriate definitions for these terms. What I usually do is either get dictionary definitions or just mix different definitions for these (which I find in dictionaries, online, etc.) in order to create my own.
Ø Knowledge questions: this part is pretty simple yet really important. You should be able to come up with at least 4 good knowledge questions that relate back to the title/topic of your essay. Example: question -> Examine the ways that empirical evidence should be used to make progress in different areas of knowledge. Knowledge questions: To what extent do the natural sciences rely on empirical evidence? Therefore, to what extent are scientific discoveries reliable? (How reliable and useful are the results of controlled experiments?) To what extent does math use empirical evidence? Do theorems use empirical evidence to exist? Can math be disproved? Have axioms been found through sense perception?
Ø Once you have established the question with these key defitions you should try and establish and present your argument; what are you going to try and prove throughout the essay? This should be done by mentioning both your arguments and counterarguments in the introduction. I will be posting one of my TOK essays in which I got an A (6.5/7) and which I corrected and annotated so that you guys can kind of get a feel of what TOK essay introductions are about.
Ø Also, remember to state all of your knowledge questions!!!
· Body paragraphs:
Ø These should contain both your arguments and counterarguments.
Ø P1: should be about 300 words long and should not only contain your (explained) argument but also personal and “famous” examples that refer back to and support the claim/to some extent prove the claim. These examples could be the ones that you’ve studied in class or ones that you’ve found on the internet. Also use examples from your personal life!
Ø P2: should be about 300 words long and should contain a counterargument. Explain it and USE EXAMPLES!
Ø P3: should be about 300 words long. set up your argument, explain it, and use examples!
Ø P4: should be about 300 words long. set up your counterargument, explain it, and use examples!
· Conclusion (100-200 words long)
Ø All you have to do is sump up your arguments and refer back to the essay title. Its pretty simple!
· References, footnotes, and bibliographies:
Ø You MUST have references! Not everything that you write down can be taken from the top of your head/from your notes.
Ø Footnotes: Your teacher should teach you how to footnote but in case you don’t know:
FOR BOOKS: authors name, name of book, (City, publisher, year), page number.
WEBPAGES: webpage name, link, date last accessed
Example:
Michelle Stacy, The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery (New York, Putnam, 2002), 18.
Ø Bibliographies are pretty simple. I use the Harvard referencing system. This is the link to the PDF that will show you how to add links, etc. to your bibliography https://www.staffs.ac.uk/assets/harvard_quick_guide_tcm44-47797.pdf
WORD COUNT AT THE END OF THE ESSAY!
Good luck!!!
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Now that you’ve chosen your topic you need to think about how you’re going to attack (ahem) the research bit. Check out our quick and easy guide.
