TOK AIS Essay 2 Assignment
MLA Format – must include references in the text and correct citations
1,000 words maximum
You may use the RLS and/or KQ from your previous essay and/or your presentation.
Students must work independently and each paper must be unique. Students who are working together on a presentation may use the same KQ as their joint presentation, but everything else must be different. Sources, examples and evidence used in the essay may be used in the presentation.
GOAL OF THE ESSAY
Explore your knowledge question by applying it to multiple situations and by making a claim and counterclaim in response to the question.
EVALUATION
Please see attached rubric.
FORMAT
I. Introduction
A. Briefly introduce real life situation
B. Introduce the knowledge question
II. Body
A. Claim – make an argument regarding the knowledge question
1.) Explore and support your claim through at least one different example from the real life situation
2.) Relate back to the knowledge question and real life situation – what does this say about “how we know what we know.”
B. Counter Claim – make a counter argument regarding the knowledge question
1.) Explore and support your counter claim through at least one different example from the real life situation
2.) Relate back to the knowledge question and real life situation – what does this say about “how we know what we know.”
III. Conclusion
Relate back to the knowledge question and the real life situation.
