<p>I'm completely frazzled because I wrote my entire Extended Essay for the IB Diploma without looking at the regulations and assessment criteria. I just read it now, and it's due tomorrow morning! I don't have an abstract... is that different from the statement of task and how? I don't have a statement of task either, but the IB Coordinator told me TODAY that I need to write one. Help... My essay is at 4500 words right now, but there are so many things I have to add and still cut down to 4000. I really need some fellow IBers to come to my rescue! Also, I have prints of paintings I'm using as research for the EE, which is in Visual Art. AND I just realized that I needed primary sources (ex. visiting art museums), and I didn't do that because I didn't know I had to. Oh.....</p>
<p>... will check CC in another hour or so, after I work on my IB TOK essay, which is also due tomorrow.......... who said senior year was easy?</p>
<p>wow your school leaves EVERYTHING to the last minute. What's your TOK essay topic? I did question nine.</p>
<p>Dang... I echo David Rune. We did TOK essay towards the end of last year, and extended essay was due Dec 7th. You poor thing. I think you're allowed either 4400 or 4500 without penalty on EE. The best advice for abstract is that it's a synopsis of your whole paper, from RQ to conclusions. Here's mine: </p>
<pre><code>The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law on July 26, 1990 with the ultimate goals of equal opportunity for and social acceptance of people with disabilities. Such lofty goals are difficult to attain, for while the ADA can remove physical barriers to the social integration of people with disabilities, it cannot force people to change their personal prejudices. The aim of this essay is to examine the effectiveness of the ADA. To what extent is the Americans with Disabilities Act effective in promoting greater social integration and acceptance of people with disabilities?
This work investigated the effectiveness of the Americans with Disabilities Act through in-depth analysis of the ADAs first four titles. Title I pertains to employment of people with disabilities, Title II mandates the provision of public services to people with disabilities, Title III regulates the accessibility of private services to people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against them, and Title IV makes telecommunications accessible to people with disabilities. The gains that each title delivered were reported. The shortcomings of each title were also investigated and, after evaluation, suggestions were offered for improvement. The main research method was a study of previously published research, and statistics were gathered from several sources ranging from scholarly surveys to U.S. Census reports.
From my study I concluded that the Americans with Disabilities Act has been effective in promoting greater social acceptance and integration of people with disabilities. Its mandates have improved the quality of life for many Americans with disabilities and made them a more visible and therefore familiar minority. However, the ADA needs to be better enforced in order for it to reach its full potential. Furthermore, it needs more time and some revision in order to reach its goal of true equality for people with disabilities.
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<p>The EE rubric can be found here: <a href="http://www.aisb.ro/secondary/diploma/eeguide.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.aisb.ro/secondary/diploma/eeguide.pdf</a></p>
<p>Use it!</p>
<p>Sorry to contradict, but the word max for EE is definitely 4,000. "Essays in excess of 4000 words are subject to penalties and examiners are not required to read material in excess of word limit." (pg 11 of the General Guidelines)</p>
<p>Double-posting this too.</p>
<p>davidrune--hey, I did #9 too! Just finished it, and after this post will start editing my EE. As you can see, our school leaves stuff to the last minute too. Or rather, we students found out exactly when the papers need to be sent and everyone here is lazy and waits to the last minute.</p>
<p>Good luck suburbian!!! I think we all emphasize.</p>
<p>TOK: I did "Some people believe that science is supreme form of knowledge. Do you believe that this statement is true, or does this statement misrepresent the meaning of science or of knowledge?" Not the exact words, but something to that effect. </p>
<p>Thanks for the help, guys! Now I'm just trying to figure out what the perspective should be (1st, 2nd). In llamapyjamas' example, it seems that she combined the statement of task (intent) and abstract into one body. Mine is on visual arts, and one of the criteria is a personal connection: I have to write why the topic is important to me. Do you think that and the statement of intent can go in the abstract? (This would be good since then I have less to worry about w/ respect to going over the word count).</p>
<p>llamapyjamas, the statement of task is a brief paragraph saying what you are trying to find, how you will find this information, and how you will analyze to come up with a conclusion. You included this in your abstract.</p>
<p>Garou, have fun editing your EE! The people in our school figured it out, too. The EE was due Tuesday and the TOK two weeks ago, but we know that the school will mail everything out on Monday. I'll try to finish by tomorrow, but I think some people are planning to work on it over the weekend...</p>
<p>I hope you're still online. I don't know much about requirements for Visual Arts (I'm doing philosophy), but I have some good news. More quotes from the general guidelines paper:</p>
<p>The word limit "includes the introduction, the body, the conclusion, and any quotations, but does NOT include:</p>
<p>-the abstract
-acknowledgments
-the contents page
-maps, charts, diagrams, etc.
-references/bibliography
-appendices"</p>
<p>Actually, I am indeed having fun with editing. Just hope I have enough time (need to fix the flow, vamp up the intro and conclusion as well as write the abstract, plus do other HW).</p>
<p>I just remembered 4400 from some unofficial website once upon a time. Perhaps they were using the plus/minus 10% is unnoticeable and fudgeable.</p>
<p>My supervisor never told us anything about a statement of intent. I just divided my abstract into three sections to cover the rubric: research question, scope of the investigation, and conclusion reached. Statement of intent isn't in the rubric or that guide I posted, so maybe it's just something your supervisor requires.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, we're required to find mentors for our EE. Do your schools do that?</p>
<p>Yup. I think that's required by IB too. Our mentors have to be teachers at our school.</p>
<p>Yeah. I had a mentor. I asked like 2 months before the EE was due. His plan was that we meet each week for: research, more research, outline, first draft, second draft, and touch-ups. According to his plan, I was supposed to have finished my essay two weeks ago... I guess the plan didn't work. Although it was very good of him to help me w/ my essay almost every day this week! But that's because he's my art teacher, and I see him every day. Other people asked their last year's teacher or for example, a school psychologist (EE on psychology). Most people got little or no help from their mentors.</p>
<p>With us, our mentors are what we make of it. I worked with the head of the Texas Center for Disability Studies (affiliated with UT). Some people had on campus teachers and others used their papers from summer programs and thus had mentors as far away as Oxford. My mentor like, disappeared for a month and never actually read my EE until past the due date, but she did at least help me research.</p>
<p>science EEs are actually not that bad...i did mine in bio...applying chaos theory to cardiac dynamics...surprisingly it was fun...</p>
<p>i wanted to know...is there a lower limit for the word count?</p>
<p>hey suburbian...i did the same TOK topic...i used some stuff from Dan Brown's angels and demons...they was some interesting stuff in there...</p>
<p>Yeah don't go over 4000 words for the EE and I think the limit for the TOK essay was 1600 words. Go over and you get points taken away.</p>
<p>Frustratingly, IB doesn't give a word min for the EE. Our teachers told us that if it is below 3000 words it is considered inadequate, though. 3500 words is a good place to be.</p>
<p>Mine was 3200</p>
<p>It's definitely 4000 for the EE and 1200min 1600 max for TOK.
Wow you guys do the EE late. We do in the IB1, or the first year we're enrolled in the IB. Every student is assigned an advisor and we get a week off school to complete it.</p>
<p>That was so long ago. </p>
<p>As for TOK, we just recently finished that, no biggie.</p>