VSA Extended Essay

This VSA extended essay guide is a guide for students and staff. Here you can find information on everything to do with the EE from choosing a topic and a supervisor, how to navigate the research process, organising your time, organising your sources and citations, to the final steps of presenting your findings in a format that is relevant to your subject area.

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What is an extended essay?
Our timeline for writing the essay
A step by step plan for writing the essay
Guiding documents

What is an Extended Essay?

Here you can find an outline of what the EE actually is.

Significance and Structure

The Process

Here you can find an overview of the steps to writing the extended essay

Timeline For Graduating Class of 2026

Timeline For Graduating Class of 2025

Research Question

Conducting Research

Academic honesty, citations and other important skills found here

Using AI

A summary of acceptable and unacceptable use of AI

Media

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Recommended Websites For Research

Suggested Websites for your Research

Edge and Copilot

Literature Review

Using AI to help you conduct a literature review

Presentation

Structuring Your Essay

Viva Voce

The Final Step

Subject Specific Guidance from the IB

Quick Links

PLANNING YOUR ESSAY

Flex Presentations

Documenting Sources

All Subject Specific Guidance- THE IB GUIDE

Here you can find the IB guide with references to the subject specific guides for individual subjects

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Mathematics

The Sciences

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The Arts

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World Studies

An Interdisciplinary research paper. Here you can find a graphic organisor for your World Studies EE which will help you to get started in a more systematic manner.

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