History Extended Essay
The link below will open the Extended Essay Guide. It contains all the assessment criteria.
Extended Essay Guide
Here is the History EE report from 2012 where examiners give advice and feedback:
History EE subject report 2012
This is an example of an History EE from the IB website:
Exemplar essay
Exemplar Essay about Russia in the 20th century.
These are the essential steps to writing a successful History Extended Essay:
1. Chose a topic
2. Gather resources
3. Begin to research
4. Narrow the topic and formulate a research question
5. Conduct more focused research
6. Create an outline
7. Write the first draft
8. Edit the draft in line with the feedback you have received
9. Write the final essay
Extended Essay Guide
Here is the History EE report from 2012 where examiners give advice and feedback:
History EE subject report 2012
This is an example of an History EE from the IB website:
Exemplar essay
Exemplar Essay about Russia in the 20th century.
These are the essential steps to writing a successful History Extended Essay:
1. Chose a topic
2. Gather resources
3. Begin to research
4. Narrow the topic and formulate a research question
5. Conduct more focused research
6. Create an outline
7. Write the first draft
8. Edit the draft in line with the feedback you have received
9. Write the final essay
Resources
The following links can help you to find sources. Ideally you should be aiming for both primary and secondary sources, academic works by well known Historians and journal articles.
History Today / History Review (the school has a subscription to this site - when you have found articles that look suitable please send the link to Ms Rinker who will send you the full article)
http://www.historytoday.com
The link below takes you to the school library catalogue where you can access sites such as EBSCO:
http://destinylib.nanjing-school.com/common/servlet/presenthomeform.do;jsessionid=3956106DAFBCBA72F90DDA892AA2F945?l2m=Home&tm=Home&l2m=Home
History Today / History Review (the school has a subscription to this site - when you have found articles that look suitable please send the link to Ms Rinker who will send you the full article)
http://www.historytoday.com
The link below takes you to the school library catalogue where you can access sites such as EBSCO:
http://destinylib.nanjing-school.com/common/servlet/presenthomeform.do;jsessionid=3956106DAFBCBA72F90DDA892AA2F945?l2m=Home&tm=Home&l2m=Home
APA
Here is the full guide to APA 6th edition:
APA Guide
Here is a quick APA guide with some examples of the most common citations and some guidelines:
APA examples
The links below can help with making the citations:
http://citationmachine.net/index2.php
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
APA Guide
Here is a quick APA guide with some examples of the most common citations and some guidelines:
APA examples
The links below can help with making the citations:
http://citationmachine.net/index2.php
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/