VSA Extended Essay

A Guide for Students and Staff.

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.

On this page you can access information about
What is an extended essay?
Our timeline for writing the essay
A step by step plan for writing the essay
Guiding documents

What is the first step I should take?

You need to read the IB guide, the EE Student Handbook and any subject-specific guidance that is relevant to you.

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 2027

Support Materials for Supervisors and Students

Here you will find support material for both students and supervisors

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

Edit your Features from the Pages tab by clicking the edit button.

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

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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The Interdisciplinary Pathway

An Interdisciplinary research paper. Here you can find a graphic organiser that will help you to get started in a more systematic manner. Please note that there are some resources that were applicable to the old world studies EE, which has been replaced by the interdisciplinary pathway. The fundamentals are still the same, except there are not as many restrictions.

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