Let me present an overview of tips for students who have just started the English A EE task.
In order to use precious time and put effort most efficiently, you must decide on a topic that you are genuinely interested in and can research comprehensively, take the time to properly determine the RQ, and set the clear direction.
Well, long rambling short, let’s check out the step by step EE tips that you can find helpful!
Step 1: Pick a literary work and topic that you are genuinely interested and academically meaningful!
Choose a literary work or topic that actually interests you and is worth studying at the same time! It should be a worthy topic that can further develop the ideas and themes you learned in your school English class.
Also, the topic should be the one that can be summarised in 4000 words, and it has to be clear enough to be demonstrated as a Research Question.
Step 2: Develop a Research Question
Now that you've decided on a topic, let's focus on the RQ!
Many IB students either think too easily about the purpose and meaning of RQ or do not properly understand it, so they get confused and go through a hectic time writing EE.
A good RQ has one broad core keyword and is narrowed down in detail by linking it to the work you have selected.
For example, the topic “How technology and social media affect our lives” is obviously too broad because it does not tell us exactly what part or component of our lives social media affects.
Once you have decided on big keywords such as technology and social media, an RQ that focuses on this by linking these keywords to a single work and relating them to a more specific topic about how they have influenced the English language can be a much more interesting and realistic EE RQ. .
Step 3: Choose What to Base Your Research On
Let’s decide on the sources needed to analyse your RQ. Once the RQ has been clearly identified, you now decide on the data sources needed to analyse and prove the RQ. Broadly speaking, the categories are divided into primary sources and secondary sources, right?
I posted separate posts in great detail about the primary and secondary sources needed when writing English A EE, so it will be helpful to refer to them!
Step 4: Seek feedback for Your Extended Essay Development
Before you start researching and writing, let’s get feedback first!
If you have progressed through steps 1 to 3 above, what’s next? Should you actually start writing EE? Of course, the step-by-step information on actually writing EE is very well summarised in other posts, so please refer to them.
And in fact, there is one last thing you must do before kicking off the EE journey. You must proactively get feedback from your EE supervisor on what you have prepared and organised in steps 1-3.
If your EE coordinator has given positive feedback on the content you have organised in steps 1-3 above and has given the opinion that it is good to proceed, it means that you can finally start actually writing EE!
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