At British Achool of Costa Rica

1. INTERNATIONAL
BACCALAUREATE
SENIOR 7
EXTENDED ESSAY
WORKSHOP
BRITISH SCHOOL OF COSTA RICA

2. 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

3. Upcoming deadlines
• Monday, February 11th Evidence of progress to supervisor
Minimum 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

4. 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!!

5. General Extended Essay format
COVER PAGE THE BRITISH SCHOOL OF COSTA RICA
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
EXTENDED ESSAY
Subject
Title
Research Question
Word Count: 3989
Your name
Candidate number D00 0608 0XX
November 2013

6. 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

7. 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”

8. 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).

9. 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)

10. And now…
HOW TO FORMAT WORD
DOCUMENTS

11. Differences between MLA and APA
American Psychological Association (APA) Modern Language Association (MLA)
For social and natural sciences For humanities: art, literature, history
References page for sources (Double spaced, Works Cited page for sources (Double spaced,
alphabetical order, French indentation) 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 Prints full first names
i.e. Mumford, L. 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

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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

17. 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.