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Welcome to the SCIS Extended Essay.

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.

This wikispace contains a number of useful documents and resources for students writing Extended Essays. Documents and pages may be accessed by clicking on the links at the left side of this page.

The link called "The SCIS Extended Essay Guide" contains a number of documents that are meant to both help you through the research and writing process as well as provide concrete help with certain aspects of writing and submitting the Extended Essay.

The SCIS Extended Essay 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.
 * A short guide to how to properly cite sources in both MLA and APA styles.
 * various other documents meant to help you through the process in various ways: please spend some time looking them over.

The link "IBO Extended Essay Subject Guide (first exams May 2013)" will take you to a document that provides the EE guidelines, all of the criteria by which you will be graded, as well as all of the subject-specific material you will need to start and complete your Extended Essay. It is an incredibly valuable document, and it will be very useful for you to have a look at it as you decide (and after you have decided) your subject area, topic and research question.

The page called "The Extended Essay Timeline" will take you directly to a page that lists all of the major deadlines for the EE.

The page called "FAQ" will take you to a series of frequently asked questions about the Extended Essay process.

We hope that this site and these documents help you throughout the EE process. Please send all queries about the EE process to me directly at bmasoni@scischina.org.

Brad Masoni Extended Essay Coordinator <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">SCIS, Hongqiao campus