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IB Extended Essay Guide

2023 IBO Extended Essay
The official guide from the IB. It contains information on overall requirements, subject-specific requirements, tips for conducting research, and assessment information. IMPORTANT!
EE Exemplars
Student sample extended essays, corresponding marks and comments from senior examiners.
IB Extended Essay Homepage
Official IB website for Extended Essay resources.

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General Reference

The Best Research Plan

1. Read broadly to build background knowledge about your SUBJECT (video search, general web search, encyclopedias, IB textbooks).

2. Formulate a FOCUSED research question.

3. Gather information that addresses your research question (survey, interview, journal articles, etc.)

4. Write your essay.

ALWAYS be able to answer these questions about your topic:

What is your paper about?

What is your thesis? Your argument? Your point?

So what? Why is it important?

Now what? Given the research you've done, what action should happen?

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Writing the Extended Essay

Topic Finders

Browse through these resources to go from a general topic of interests down to a specific area of focus.

JSTOR
Browse by subjects.
JSTOR Daily
Where news meets its scholarly match. Lots of interesting articles from scholars looking at global issues and daily events. You might find an interesting topic here.
Literary Themes and Topics
An interesting list of possible themes to explore if you are considering an EE in English.
Literature Themes
A Huge List of Common Themes in Literature. Not everything is here, but it's a place to start.
Opposing Viewpoints Browse Issues
Lists of topics with academic sources of information. AISG library password required. Please find the password in the Research Databases box.
Pew Research Group
A detailed listing of Pew Research Center polling and demographic topics and subjects
Procon.org
This is not a suitable source of information, but it could be a place to browse for a topic of interest. You can also mine the articles for links to more academic sources.
World Economic Forum Strategic Intelligence
Explore and monitor the issues and forces driving transformational change across economies, industries, and global issues. This is a visual search using categories and then drilling down to open resources about specific topics. You must sign up for a free account.

Statistics Websites

19 Places to Find Free Data Sets for Data Science Projects
More sites to find data sets.
Ag Data Commons
Datasets from the US Department of Agriculture
AGRIS
Agricultural Science and Technology Information from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Earth Data
Open access data from NASA
Google Data Sets
A data set search powered by Google.
Knoema
Knoema is the most comprehensive source of global decision-making data in the world. Our tools allow individuals and organizations to discover, visualize, model, and present their data and the world’s data to facilitate better decisions and better outcomes.
The Observatory of Economic Complexity
The Observatory of Economic Complexity is a tool that allows users to quickly compose a visual narrative about countries and the products they exchange. It was Alexander Simoes' Master Thesis in Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab.
Pew Research Center Datasets
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions.
Statista
Statista Research & Analysis is a combined provider of market research as well as research and analysis services. We help corporate customers collect and prepare market, customer and competitive information.
Statistics Sweden
Our main task is to supply users and customers with statistics for decision making, debate and research. We do this mainly through assignments from the government and other government agencies.
United Nations Statistics Division
The United Nations Statistics Division is committed to the advancement of the global statistical system. We compile and disseminate global statistical information, develop standards and norms for statistical activities, and support countries' efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems.

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