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Re: How to Structure Your Economics Essay

Tim Woods — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:07:38 -0000

Generally, we recommend only evaluating one policy. We do this through article choice (choose an article with just one to evaluate) or you can do it through highlighting the one you're going to focus on (literally using a highlighter to show the part of the article you're going to focus on). The article choice approach is better.

Evaluating two solutions is hard because you don't have the word count to do it properly.

Re: The London Slang Dictionary Project

Tim Woods — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:05:42 -0000

Thanks.

Re: How to Structure an Economics IA

Tim Woods — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:05:15 -0000

:) Thanks.

Re: How to Structure a Business and Management Internal Assessment

Tim Woods — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:03:14 -0000

Sorry, I can't do that exactly, but if you'd like to join the online group www.ibmastery.com you can get more support on there.

Re: How to Structure a Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Presentation

Tim Woods — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:02:40 -0000

Hi there, Decontextualisation is about moving from the RLS into ToK territory. So if you had a situation where someone yelled at you, you wouldn't normally think about Reason, Faith, etc --but for your presentation that's the type of thing we want to know about. So, Decontextualisation is about making that leap.

So you could say, "At first I noticed I was angry and it was difficult to understand why this happened. But then I thought about whether this action was ethical and 'how could we really know what is ethical?' Maybe from this person's perspective she was fully justified. ...which brings me to my KQ "TWE is emotion reliable in determining ethics in the social sciences." Decontextualisation is linking the RLS to the KQ --showing how you got the KQ.

Re: The Theory of the Firm Rappers

Tim Woods — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 23:58:34 -0000

That's great news!! Thanks for sharing the credit, but this was all you Robert! Well done. :)

Re: How to Structure a Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Presentation

Tim Woods — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 23:57:23 -0000

There is no difference. We used to say Knowledge Issue, but now we say Knowledge Question. KQ was thought to be less confusing, but then when you make a change like this people always get a little confused anyway. :)

Perspectives can go anywhere in your developments or in the conclusion, but I recommend putting it in the conclusion if you can't decide.

Re: Evaluation in Economics

Tim Woods — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 23:55:56 -0000

Either of those ways are fine. It's normally best to pull in the diagram whenever you think you need it. Think about it as though you were explaining the situation to a friend. When would it make the most sense to pull the diagram into the conversation?

Re: Evaluation in Economics

Tim Woods — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 23:54:51 -0000

Basically you want to use the diagrams to help explain what the economic theory says. Economics is fully of weaknesses. It's hard to make accurate predictions, but we use theories like the basic Supply and Demand curve to make predictions anyway. So you basically just explain how the diagram works --what it shows, using a real life example if you can remember one.

I tell my students to explain the diagram in a way that a friend of yours, who hasn't taken econ, would completely understand the explanation. That's hard to do, but it's all about writing simply.

Re: How to Structure a Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Presentation

Tim Woods — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 23:52:13 -0000

I would check with your teachers, but it could work. 1 main KQ at the beginning and then link back to 2 other RLS's at the end. That's pretty normal, but I'm not sure exactly what your teachers are looking for.

Re: How to Structure a Theory of Knowledge Essay

Tim Woods — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:01:48 -0000

Hi Raashi. I would also suggest including secondary sources if you can. However, it is possible to have a very strong essay (that scores well) without secondary sources.

Re: How to Structure an Economics IA

Tim Woods — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:00:32 -0000

Hi Jane, The method that I suggest is only using a single graph (in most cases), so you might want to just use one.

Re: How to Structure a Business and Management Internal Assessment

Tim Woods — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 03:36:47 -0000

Hi there. Yes it is included.

Re: How to Get Full Marks in Business Questions

Tim Woods — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 03:36:17 -0000

Hi there. Yep, I have a whole mini-course to help with that. It's got videos on the concepts, a perfect sample answer and a simple method to answer the questions. www.cuegis.com

Re: How to Structure an Economics IA

Tim Woods — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 09:01:17 -0000

Hi there Kim. Using quotes in the Econ IA isn't really that bad, except that it doesn't earn you any marks and it eats into your word count. It's better, therefore to write in efficient sentences that don't restate things that are in the article --at least not too much. It's fair to assume that your reader has just read the article and you can go ahead and just make sense of it for the reader.

Re: How to Structure an Economics IA

Tim Woods — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:59:04 -0000

Hi there. You should be fine to evaluate only the solution(s) proposed in the article. If there are no solutions proposed in the article then you can suggest something and explore that. All the best!

Re: How to Get Full Marks in Business Questions

Tim Woods — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:57:02 -0000

Hi James. That's a great question. Basically balanced here means that you've looked at both sides to a reasonable extent. Sometimes students focus much more on one side than the other and that's not balanced. It's a bit like ToK, where you need strong claims and strong counterclaims too.

Re: How to Structure an Economics IA

Tim Woods — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:55:37 -0000

Hi Amy. You raise some very interesting questions. I am a little nervous to get into this stuff too deeply with you because I suspect that your teacher might be wanting you to sort these issues out for yourself in your IA. Would you like to try talking to your teacher (and your class) about these questions and then come back to me if there is anything (preferably, a concise question :) I can still help you with?

Re: How to Structure a Business and Management Internal Assessment

Tim Woods — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:52:51 -0000

Oh, there are many options. The key is to think about this company and really consider the reasons why it might be a good idea for them to expand. Then think about the reasons why it might not be a good idea for them. Maybe they can't really afford it. Maybe it contradicts the company's current priorities. Try to figure out the 3 or 4 most important questions the company would need to answer before making the commitment to expand. Then simply find tools that help you explore those questions.

Re: How to Structure a Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Presentation

Tim Woods — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:50:39 -0000

Hi there. That's a big question. I would definitely start by talking to your teacher. Let me know if there's anything specific I can do to help, but your teacher should be able to guide you in the right direction.

Re: Meeting The Economics IA Rubric Requirements

Tim Woods — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:48:34 -0000

Hi Jery

Re: How to Structure a Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Presentation

Tim Woods — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:48:14 -0000

Hi Minna,

Yes, a claim is basically a partial answer to the KQ. If your KQ is "To what extent is intuition a reliable source of knowledge in arts and natural sciences?" your first CLAIM might be that intuition is mostly reliable in arts.

Re: The 99 Best Economics Resources

Tim Woods — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:45:49 -0000

Hi there, I don't have a list like that myself that I can share, but it would be a great resource to try to put together with your class perhaps?

Re: How to Make Your Good Extended Essay Great

Tim Woods — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:44:54 -0000

HI Shira, Unfortunately I don't know of a good source for that. We don't do psychology at my current school. Sorry.

Re: How to Structure a Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Presentation

Tim Woods — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:43:47 -0000

Hi Leonardo. Obviously, with three people you have more time, but you don't necessarily need to change the number of developments. These days we're recommending that students go deeper and deeper with developments (i.e. is normally more, well I guess "fewer is more" is the grammatically correct way to say that.). Anyway, I would consider sticking with the exact same format and just taking more time with each development. Many groups of two just do 2 developments these days.