INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE

SENIOR 7

EXTENDED ESSAY WORKSHOP

BRITISH SCHOOL OF COSTA RICA

Today you will learn about

• Upcoming deadlines and what they mean

• Further research opportunities

• General format of the Extended Essay

• How to set up your Word documents to make your life easier

• MLA/APA referencing styles

• How to format your bibliography

Upcoming deadlines

• Monday, February 11th Evidence of progress to supervisorMinimum 2 pages (any section)

• Monday, April 15th (NEW!) (8 wks later) Right after Tirimbina trip

FULL Draft (NO abstract) Supervisor ONLY comments on this draft

Digital copy to anarojas@bscr.ed.cr

2 printed copies to supervisor

Meeting with supervisor for feedback

• Wednesday, May 15th (4 weeks later) FINAL copy

Digital copy to anarojas@bscr.ed.cr

Authorize possible publication in BSCR’s Best EEs

Viva voce with supervisor in the next weeks

In case you still need to do more research…

• Visit Ms. Rojas during first breaks to check online databases (previous appointment)

• Visit Xinia any time during the day (except for 1-2 pm)

Online databases mostly for academic journals, magazines, newspapers

HAVE A VARIETY OF SOURCES!!

General Extended Essay formatCOVER PAGE THE BRITISH SCHOOL OF COSTA RICA

 INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE

 EXTENDED ESSAY

 Subject

   

TitleResearch Question

  

Word Count: 3989 

Your nameCandidate number D00 0608 0XX

    

November 2013

General Extended Essay format•WORD COUNT• If EE exceeds 4000 words can lose up to 2 points in format!• Count words only in introduction, body and conclusion, nothing else

• ABSTRACT• Not necessary in FULL draft• 300 words• Right after cover page• On a separate page• Answer the questions:• Research question• The scope/range of the investigation• A summary of your conclusions

General Extended Essay format

• CONTENTS PAGE• Right after abstract page, before introduction• No page number

• ILLUSTRATIONS (Graphs, charts, diagrams, tables, maps, images)• Only included in body if directly mentioned during

analysis/discussion and necessary for understanding• Label carefully for reference (Diagram 1, Figure 1)• Acknowledge sources in bibliography

• IN-TEXT CITATIONS• First quote in text use a footnote. Then add the phrase

“Further references are included parenthetically in the text”

General Extended Essay format• PARAPHRASING

• Avoid always copying and pasting quotes

MLA Style

Hornsey and Jetten (2003) investigated group responses to impostors. For the purposes of their study, the impostors were defined as vegetarians who go against the norm by eating meat. The “violation of the norm” in this particular situation is easily noticed (Hornsey and Jetten, p. 641).

APA Style

• In the first season of The Sopranos, Tony Soprano’s mobster activities are more threatened by members of his biological family than by agents of the federal government. (Fields).

General Extended Essay format

• TRANSLATIONS• In text, include your own translation:

García Márquez starts his famous novel by claiming that

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

[Own translation]

• Then, add footnote with original text and parenthetical reference:

“Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo.” (Garcia Marquez 1)

And now…

HOW TO FORMAT WORD DOCUMENTS

Differences between MLA and APAAmerican Psychological Association (APA) Modern Language Association (MLA)

 For social and natural sciences  

 For humanities: art, literature, history  

 

References page for sources (Double spaced, alphabetical order, French indentation) 

 

Works Cited page for sources (Double spaced, alphabetical order, French indentation) 

 

Emphasizes author and date of publication

 

Emphasizes author and title of publication  

 Does not capitalize all words in titles 

 Capitalizes all major words in titles:i.e. Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business 

 Initial for authors’ first names i.e. Mumford, L. 

 Prints full first names i.e. Mumford, Lewis 

 Does not abbreviate months  

 Abbreviates months (except for May, June and July)  Note: www.easybib.com and www.citationmachine.net aren’t infallible. You

need to enter some information to produce the right citation.

Online Writing Lab at Purdue University is a great resource too

Answers to Exercise 1

•MLA

Hajek, Christopher, Vilagran, Melinda, and Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles. “The Relationships among Perceived Physician Accommodation, Perceived Outgroup Typicality, and Patient Inclinations toward Compliance.” Communication Research Reports. 24.4 (2007): 293-302. Print

• APA

Hajek, C., Villagran, M., & Wittenberg-Lyles, E. (2007). The relationships among perceived physician

accommodation, perceived outgroup typicality, and patient inclinations toward compliance. Communication Research Reports, 24(4), 293-302.

Answers to Exercise 2• MLA

Miller-Cochran, Susan K., and Rochelle L. Rodrigo. The Wadsworth Guide to Research. Boston: Wadsworth-Cengage Learning, 2009. 250-251

• APA

Miller-Cochran, S. K., & Rodrigo, R. L. (2099). The Wadsworth guide to research. (pp. 250-251). Boston, MA: Wadsworth-Cengage Learning.

Answers to Exercise 2•MLA

“Business Data for Van Helsing (2004).” The Internet Movie Database. www.imdb.com 28 Oct, 2005. Web. 4 Feb, 2013

• APA

Business data for Van Helsing (2004). (2005, October 25). Retrieved from www.imdb.com/title/tt0338526/business

Answers to exercise 4•MLA

Heilig, Morton. “The Cinema of the Future.” 1955. Trans. Uri Feldman. Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality. Ed. Randall Packer and Ken Jordan. New York: Norton, 2001. 239-251

• APA

Heilig, M. (2001). The cinema of the future. (U. Feldman, Trans.). In

R. Packer & K. Jordan (Eds.), Multimedia: From Wagner to virtual reality (pp. 239–251). New York, NY: Norton.