Not that you can't just read the Marking Criteria and get an A; but for those who are finding it hard to mold a top-scoring essay or as a timely reminder to tick the boxes once you're finished:
- [Criterion A] Have you identified the knowledge issues implied in the title?
- Have you used a variety of Ways of Knowing and Areas of Knowledge?
- Have you tried to link on WoK and AoK? Take 2 examples of each.
- Stay on topic, address the question posed.
- [Criterion B] Have you drawn on your personal experience? Have you used examples from your own life? A personal voice is very important in TOK essays. Need to be able to identify knowledge issues arisen from your surrounding IB studies. There’s nothing wrong with looking at staid and often-used examples as they can be the best to demonstrate what you are trying to convey. But there needs to be balance with personal examples. Try not to make up examples as they will sound fake. Don’t use trivial examples.
- Have you made reference to at least two perspectives? Perspectives from different areas of knowledge, different ways of knowing... Philosophical perspectives, cultural perspectives, societal perspectives.
- [Criterion C] Have you provided evidence for your claims? Back it up with examples/ research… Where did you get your ideas from? Show that your arguments have a basis.
- Have you examined counterclaims? Think of your essay as a dialogue. Be very aware of how someone who views this differently would attack your argument. (Eg. Sense perception – illusions, phantom pains; how people who don’t have senses experience the world differently to us, they have helped us survive for so long)
- [Criterion D] Generally like any essay – intro, body, conclusion, claims, counterclaims – make it clear how you are progressing within the essay.
10. Have you referenced your examples according to an established format?
11. Bibliography is consistent (Harvard style, MLA)
Hope this helps!
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