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    The document provides a checklist for students to use to evaluate their TOK essays before submission. It includes criteria for understanding knowledge issues, considering different perspectives, quality of analysis, and organization of ideas. For each criterion, it lists several questions for students to consider to ensure they have adequately addressed all components of a high-quality TOK essay. It encourages students to use the checklist to identify and correct any issues themselves so teachers can focus feedback on more complex aspects of the work.

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    The document provides a checklist for students to use to evaluate their TOK essays before submission. It includes criteria for understanding knowledge issues, considering different perspectives, quality of analysis, and organization of ideas. For each criterion, it lists several questions for students to consider to ensure they have adequately addressed all components of a high-quality TOK essay. It encourages students to use the checklist to identify and correct any issues themselves so teachers can focus feedback on more complex aspects of the work.

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    TOK Essay Checklist

    In order to help you produce the best possible TOK essay, here is a checklist for you to run through before
    you hand the essay in so that you can iron out any silly mistakes / obvious omissions yourself so that your
    teachers can focus on the more important / more complicated issues when they are giving you feedback.

      
    Criterion A: Understanding Knowledge Issues (10 marks)
    Am I certain that my essay answer the question as it is set? Have I been really careful to pick
    out all the key words in the question and understand their implications, even if they are not
    ‘TOK’ words?

    Have I included the BLURS / TOK concepts such as truth, belief, certainty and knowledge or
    references to the AOKs or to the WOKs?

    Have I considered whether my answer to the question in the AOK of Maths will be different to
    the answer I would get if I considered the same question in the AOK of the Arts? Will the
    answer be different if I consider reason to if I consider emotion?

    Criterion B: Knower’s Perspective (10 marks)


    Have I considered the perspectives that other people might take on this issue or question?

    Have I examined how those perspectives may differ from my own and, most importantly, what
    factors (e.g. their religion, culture, the age in which they live, etc) have caused these other
    people to have the perspective that they do?

    Have I shown awareness of the factors (e.g. my age, gender, personality, social class, race,
    personal history) that bias and influence my own perspective?

    Have I used good examples from a variety of different sources such as academic articles,
    newspapers, my own experience and thought experiments?

    Criterion C: Quality of Analysis (10 marks)


    Do I support / prove my overall answer with a persuasive, sensible argument that is broken
    down into a series of clear and well argued steps?

    Have I got about 4 -6 obviously different main arguments or ideas that are developed in depth?

    Have I considered the counterclaims against my position, an evaluation of how strong these
    arguments against me are and a response to them that either attacks back or reaches a
    compromise between their position and mine?

    Have I discussed the important implications of my argument, possibly by considering how my


    answer in this situation would transfer to a new situation? For example if I am against abortion
    in all situations because I believe that killing is always wrong, then I should be against war in all
    situations because war, obviously, is also killing.

    Have I considered the assumptions that underpin my argument and without which it would not
    be valid?

    Criterion D: Organisation of Ideas (10 marks)


    Have I clarified any key terms with personal (not dictionary) definitions?

    Does my essay have a logical introduction, main body and conclusion structure?

    Have I got a clear ‘topic sentence’ at the start or end (or both) of each paragraph to make the
    subject of that paragraph obvious to reader and to make it clear how that paragraph links back
    to / answers the question?

    Have I identified all my sources clearly by using footnotes within my essay and a bibliography at
    the back?

    Is my essay between 1200 and 1600 words long?

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