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Important aspects of the Extended Essay are:

JIRS LIBRARY & INFORMATION CENTRE. Important aspects of the Extended Essay are:. Critical thinking Time management. Value. Research adds to your thinking and supports your views Citing shows academic honesty . Failure to do so amounts to plagiarism .

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Important aspects of the Extended Essay are:

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  1. JIRS LIBRARY & INFORMATION CENTRE Important aspects of the Extended Essay are: • Critical thinking • Time management

  2. Value • Research adds to your thinking and supports your views • Citing shows academic honesty. Failure to do so amounts to plagiarism. • Research sources can include books, journal articles, newspaper reports, Internet sources, maps, films, etc. • Subscription databases may help, e.g. EBSCO.

  3. How educators view sources • ‘Print sources, with the exception of newspapers and magazines, were viewed as sources of information with which to build a framework for the topic, the theory behind what was to be taught, or for factual information.’ (Merchant & Hepworth 2002: 83)

  4. Don’t get everything from the Internet • Differentiate between the free web and subscription databases • These may feature whole text articles and other sources that are not available on the Internet. At BPS, we subscribe - for you - to • EBSCO, which is available via the school website. • Jstor • Access world news • Brainpop

  5. Citation in text • Quotations - include author, date and page number (e.g. Taylor 2005:10) • Paraphrase text - cite author and date (e.g. Taylor 2005) • These details can be added in the middle of the sentence or at the end of the sentence.

  6. So, you’ve tried the Internet, databases … • Have you looked in the library? What did you do - consult the catalogue, look around the shelves, give up? • Of course, you’re a good finder of information, but please remember to ask the librarian. Options include purchasing specific items (that will help your EE) for the library and/or using document procurement services, e.g. British Library Document Supply Service.

  7. Citation in text • Numbering system (usually as footnotes) OR • Author, date - page number if a quote • With the author/date system, there is one bibliography listing (no separate notes listing necessary)

  8. Example of citation in text: • Paraphrase: Austin (2006) recommended that students enjoy themselves to the full whilst writing their extended essay. • Direct quote: Essays provided students ‘with untold joy’ (Merchant & Hepworth 2002: 134). • Idea acknowledged: extended essay experiences helped students considerably at university (Wallace 2003).

  9. Bibliography • Entries should start with the same name that was used in the text • One alphabetical listing, whatever the format • Alphabetical order for entries

  10. BASIC ORDER • AUTHOR • DATE OF PUBLICATION (Year) • TITLE • PLACE OF PUBLICATION (City) • PUBLISHER • DATE OF ACCESS • = ADTPPA

  11. EXAMPLES BOOK Ashcraft, Mark H. 1994. Human Memory Cognition, 2nd Edition, London: Harper Collins. Mar 2009 JOURNAL Mohr, Co and Stumpf, WA. 1966. Comparison Methods for Calculating areas of animal activity. Journal of Wildlife Management Mar 2004: 293-304 Internet References BBC. 2004. The Aids Debate. [online]. [Accessed 28 October 2007]. Available from World Wide Web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/special/aids/default.stm

  12. Websites • Basic order is similar: author, title, date you accessed the website, publisher. • Sometimes you can’t find the publisher, but you should be able to find an author. Don’t forget that an organization can be an author.

  13. Basic error when citing websites • A url is not a citation! • Can’t find the name of a website - use the root of the url, e.g. http://csu.edu.au/extendedessayguide/pdf Just take off everything after au/ and you will find the name of the organization that developed the website. If you can’t find one, perhaps indicates that the website is possibly not …

  14. In conclusion … • ‘The best extended essays will demonstrate considerable critical thinking.’ (Austin 2006: 168) • The EE ‘can represent a considerable personal achievement, not only in the form of the completed essay to display to university personnel, but also of the successful execution of the research process … on many occasions the extended essay has formed the focus of a university interview, and it undoubtably adds substantially to a personal profile.’ (ibid, p.169)

  15. References(Bibliography) • Austin, Sue. 2006. “The core components”. In T Pound’s The International Baccalaureate: a guide for teachers and managers. London, Routledge. Pp 147-170. • Merchant, Lucy & Hepworth, Mark. June 2002. “Information literacy of teachers and pupils in secondary schools”. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, vol. 3, no.2. Pp 81-89. • Wallace, Ellen. 2003. The fine line: communicating clearly in English in an international setting. 2nd ed. St-Prex, Switzerland, Zidao Communication.

  16. So … • Choose your topic carefully • Don’t leave it to the last minute • Record every source you find useful • Read and re-read the guidelines. H.S.M.Premson Teacher Librarian & Academic Career Counselor

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