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Welcome to the IB Extended Essay.

This page contains the SCIS Extended Essay Guide, which contains a number of documents that are meant to both guide you through the research and writing process as well as provide concrete help with certain aspects of writing and submitting the Extended Essay.

The guide includes:
 * general pointers that address how you should go about choosing a topic and an advisor, and how you should proceed after.
 * a document that outlines the deadlines that you will have to meet over the course of the coming months. As you know, you are meant to have a solid working draft by the end of this academic year, which you will complete over the summer, modify (as necessary) after you return from the summer vacation, and submit at the end of October of your senior year. This document will also be sent to you and your parents via email.
 * the contract that you will sign, along with your advisor and one of your parents, demonstrating that you are committed to completing this very important assessment. This document will also be sent to you and your parents via email.
 * various other documents meant to help you through the process in various ways: please spend some time looking them over, particularly the final section provided by the IBO.

The Extended Essay is a great chance for you to do real, university-level work on the topic of your choice. It is also a project that will most probably require more of your own initiative and time than any assignment you have completed at this point in your academic life. With a little bit of organization and determination writing the Extended Essay can be a great experience both in terms of allowing you to explore your true academic potential and interests, and preparing yourself for the kind of work that you will be doing at university.

Brad Masoni Extended Essay Coordinator SCIS, Hongqiao campus