Extended Essay: Do Not Let It Become Your Extended Torture

Those students, who have decided to take the IB Diploma Program, should be ready to face the last ditch, an extended essay, sooner or later. On the one hand, an extended essay should become an interesting and captivating task. On the other hand, it is extremely difficult to find an interesting and captivating written task.

We will try to help you to make the process of writing an extended essay easy and painless. To make it possible, a student should be aware not only of the information concerning the topic of the essay, but there are many other details essential for successful extended essay writing.

The choice of the subject and the topic of an extended essay

1. Remember that you are free to choose the topic of an extended essay that is interesting for you personally. We advise you to start thinking it over beforehand, it will do you good. A good extended essay topic invented at the last moment is pure fiction, it is practically impossible.
2. One of the requirements says that you should better take a topic of an extended essay that does not belong to the spheres studied by you already.
3. In case if you have studied a topic or a book and you want to continue the work on it in an extended essay, it is admissible, but you should present a multidimensional research and be sure not to present the information that has been studied already.
4. Choose a topic that will be not too narrow, remember that 4000 words are not so easy to write on a very narrow topic. At the same time, a generalized topic will not work. You should find a balance when choosing a topic for an extended essay. Your supervisor can help you as well. 

The supervisor for an extended essay

1. When choosing a topic for your paper, make sure that there are experts who will be able to help you with it.
2. If you have questions concerning the sources to study and cite, you are free to ask a supervisor for help.