ToK Essay #6 May 23
The video guide to ToK Essay #6 May 23 has gone up on YouTube today, and is linked below. That wraps it up for ToK Essay guides for May 23 season, I saved my favourite Essay for last ! If you find the videos useful then a like, subscribe, comment or share would be greatly appreciated.
ToK Essay #6 - My favourite.
I love Essay #6 - it's core ToK - it can be written at so many different levels by students. It can be approached as an discussion of knowledge construction problems, or it can be approached at a far more analytical level looking at whether we construct a world, or merely 'sense' an external physical world. I could write about, and discuss, this essay all day long !
Brevity for Levity.
I wanted to keep these video guides to less than 10 minutes in length, and I succeeded with 5/6 of them. I found the time limit particularly constraining with Essay #6 because there's just so much to say about issues of knowledge construction. In parts of the video I am only able to list a few of the topic headings which I go into in the Essay notes (linked). However, as this video was the last one made I think that I was able to keep the pace up.
Detailed Essay Notes
Super detailed notes for all of the ToK Essays in May 23 are available from this link.
The Essay Notes are very detailed (ranging from 4,500-8,000 words per essay). They include:
Main concepts.
Main arguments.
Evaluation Points.
Suggestions for different approaches to answering the questions.
Suggestions for real life examples, including sources & references.
There's far more in the notes than you will need to write a great ToK Essay - so you can pick & choose various sections of the notes to use in your essay.
Other guides:
You can find the video guide for Essay #1 linked here.
You can find the video guide for Essay #2 linked here.
You can find the video guide for Essay #3 linked here.
You can find the video guide for Essay #4 linked here.
You can find the video guide for Essay #5 linked here.
Tell me what you think !
I welcome feedback on the guide for ToK Essay #6 M23, or any of the other videos, notes, or ebooks. My mission is to produce accessible ToK Resources so please let me know what you need and what I could improve.
In the meantime, have a great week !
Daniel,
Lisbon, Portugal