Finally I have submitted my final EE, the whole process has been really stressful for me but also very rewarding. Having to do so much research was very tiring, but it was also very fun as my topic was genuinely something I am interested in. I think from my first draft, my EE has improved a lot and I have learnt not only about medical marijuana and social anxiety, but also important skills such as finding educational resources and learning how to insert in-cite citations into an essay. Although throughout the process my supervisor did change, both of them were extremely helpful in guiding me through this past year or so. Lastly, I also learnt a lot about how to navigate myself through all of the online resources out there, to be able to find the valuable and educational ones as well.

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Finally I have submitted my final EE, the whole process has been really stressful for me but also very rewarding. Having to do so much research was very tiring, but it was also very fun as my topic was genuinely something I am interested in. I think from my first draft, my EE has improved a lot and I have learnt not only about medical marijuana and social anxiety, but also important skills such as finding educational resources and learning how to insert in-cite citations into an essay. Although throughout the process my supervisor did change, both of them were extremely helpful in guiding me through this past year or so. Lastly, I also learnt a lot about how to navigate myself through all of the online resources out there, to be able to find the valuable and educational ones as well.

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After submitting my initial draft and receiving verbal and written feedback from my teacher, I have realised that my draft was not as good as it could have been. Since my initial draft was actually a fail, my teacher gave me a lot of advice and work that I have to do now. Some important notes from my supervisor was about some of my information/paragraphs being in the wrong order or even some paragraphs were unnecessary or repeated myself. I took all of my supervisors advice and reread and reevaluated my whole essay, deleting paragraphs, and moving others around. Another really important mistake I made with my initial reflection was my citations, specifically my in-cite citations. I was not sure how to do in-cite citations and forget to seek help before hand but after speaking to my supervisor and asking her to explain it too me as she understands as a teacher, I managed to try my best to add in-cite citations in al my paragraphs, linking my facts and knowledge to my citation list at the bottom of my essay.

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Today during EE day, I managed to do a lot of work and gather a lot of useful information from reliable sites in which the school provided to me. I learnt about the new site where I can find information and websites that are reliable and have good information for me to use for my work. The information that I have seen and read today has helped me to learn a lot of new useful information that I can use in my Extended Essay, important information that helps to build on my current knowledge, knowledge that I can use to expand the information in my EE. I am proud that I finally got the resources and websites that I require to consolidate my information and essay, the websites and information that I have found are very informative, valuable and interesting. The next step that I need to take is to finish finalising my outline fully, make sure that everything is clear and easy to understand for me, and start writing my essay bit by bit. I need to focus on fully explaining my information into the essay paragraphs as some of the concepts are more complex and hard to understand.

 

I have chosen a Psychology topic for my Extended Essay and my supervisor is Ms. Anne-Marie. During the first meeting that we had, we discussed the topic sentence that I was interested in, which was at the time ‘How effective is medical marijuana on anxiety’ which we decided had to be refined and made more specific and focused. . Since then I have refined my topic to be ‘How effective is medical marijuana on social anxiety in young adults’.

My research on my topic has been very interesting but not easy. I have found many resources on studies into social anxiety in order to firstly explain that issue, but I haven’t found too many studies into the connection between medical marijuana and social anxiety that reliable enough. In order to takle this issue, I will have to find better resources in my research to find more educational and reliable websites to further my research, which will take time and effort to search for good resources. Ms. Anne-Marie recommended that I talk to the librarians to discuss this further.

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