Extended Essay Templates

Here's two templates to ensure you spend more time on writing and less on fiddling about with formatting.

All the formatting structure for automatically creating a table of contents and page numbering et cetera, is already in place—all you have to do is not break it! That means formatting any headings using the styles menu, not just by formatting the text. See my post on The 10 Commandments of Word Processing if this is news to you.

Google Doc

Just download as a PDF when you're finished to submit, or download as Word if you'd like to utilise some of the more advanced features before publishing.

Some Useful Resources

Here are some posts where I've summarised the advice I've been giving students over the years, ignore at your own peril!

The 10 Commandments of Word Processing

10 Essentials that will serve you well for the rest of your life, unconscious incompetence is a killer (of time).

How to start page numbering from the 3rd page in Word...

Every year there are loads of students who are nonplussed by this; be confused no more. BTW, the IBO don't really care about this as much as many students do, just sayin'.

Problems with Plagiarism - The 'What'

Have you been told not to copy? Of course you should copy, it's what you do with it after that that matters... Copying ≠ Plagiarism

Constructive Copying - The 'How'

How to copy and paste without stealing other people's ideas and pretending they are yours.

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