How To Write IB Essays:

How to write IB essays:

As told by my economics teacher when he was telling us how to write our IAs and told is that it would be good for any subject with essay questions.

There are three criteria to achieve:

Evaluate: Evaluations give grades 6-7, with 450 words on it

Apply: Applying knowledge gives levels 4-5, here we should give explanations and if there are any diagrams explain that as well, with 250 words on it

Knowledge: This gives grades 1-3, here we should write down definitions and background information, with a word count of 150 words.

How to write it:

Intro: State and explain the dilemma, justify its importance, and use minor citations.

Body: Here we should show off our knowledge, using definitions, diagrams with explanations of any, basically used to analyse the situation. This analysis is then used to evaluate.

Note: it is useful to underline or highlight important keywords or statements in the assignment or exam paper, it shows where all the work is done and also leaves a good impression on the examiner.

“Nevertheless life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.” (Sheridan Le Fanu "Carmilla")

“I am sure, Carmilla, you have been in love; that there is, at this moment, an affair of the heart going on.” (Sheridan Le Fanu "Carmilla")

"The young lady did not acknowledge this pretty speech, did not seem to hear it. She was leaning back in her seat, her fine eyes under their long lashes gazing on me in contemplation, and she smiled in a kind of rapture.

“And now you can read quite plainly the name that is written in the corner.

It is not Marcia; it looks as if it was done in gold. The name is Mircalla, Countess Karnstein, and this is a little coronet over and underneath A.D.

1698. I am descended from the Karnsteins; that is, mamma was.” (Sheridan Le Fanu "Carmilla")

"Without knowing it, I was now in a pretty advanced stage of the strangest illness under which mortal ever suffered. There was an unaccountable fascination in its earlier symptoms that more than reconciled me to the incapacitating effect of that stage of the malady. This fascination increased for a time, until it reached a certain point, when gradually a sense of the horrible mingled itself with it, deepening, as you shall hear, until it discolored and perverted the whole state of my life."

“She came there after you had searched it, still in her sleep, and at last awoke spontaneously, and was as much surprised to find herself where she was as any one else. I wish all mysteries were as easily and innocently explained as yours, Carmilla,” he said, laughing. “And so we may congratulate ourselves on the certainty that the most natural explanation of the occurrence is one that involves no drugging, no tampering with locks, no burglars, or poisoners, or witches—nothing that need alarm Carmilla, or anyone else, for our safety.” (Sheridan Le Fanu "Carmilla")

All images above were created by the wonderful Ana Juan for an Italian edition of Sheridan Le Fanu's lesbian vampire classic "Carmilla" in 2015

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I've heard of ChatGPT through one of my classes, and I don't remember the discussion much, but it was pretty unbelievable because my teacher had said that you could put in exam questions about different subjects and it would give decent answers. I 100% agree with you.

Another issue with AI

While AI art has been trending here on Tumblr for the last couple of days, I just found out about another AI program, called ChatGPT which is a writing AI. As an English teacher I’m mind blown by it. I put in some prompts that are going to be on my student’s final and it spat out some pretty decent responses.

I’m not going to get into the ethics of this service or where it’s getting info from, because that’s all over Tumblr.

I’m going to say this to the students out there. I know you guys are stressed. I know that the pressure put on teenagers and young adults is worse than ever. I know sometimes you’re in it for a grade and not for the learning. But I am trying my hardest to teach young people how to analyze a complex situation, how to understand deeper meaning and think critically for themselves. 

Don’t cheat yourself using these programs.

oscar x rosalie

HEY WE CAN’T BE TOGETHER BUT LETS SIT TOGETHER ON MY BED AND HOLD HANDS AND I’LL STROKE YOUR FACE SENSUALLY

IS THAT A PLAN

So let me get this straight

1. Elon Musk buys Twitter

2. Elon Musk unbans Andrew Tate

3. Andrew Tate picks a fight with Greta Thunberg

4. Greta Thunberg ratios the shit out him

5. He gets mad and posts a video response

6. There's a Romanian pizza box in the video which twigs Romanian police of his location

7. He is raided and arrested for human trafficking

That is some fabulous fuck-around-find-out shit and a great end to the year.

I finally got an ace ring! After 2 years of knowing I'm asexual. It looks like a regular ring and I love how plain it looks but I'm happy to have a reminder of how I'm different and how much I love my asexuality.

I realised I was asexual after reading Wattpad smut and then it was a bunch of questioning myself before realising it XD