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Extended Essay : Using Citations

A guide to ASW's research tools and supports to help you with the Extended Essay.

IB Information on using AI

Students should be informed of the following rules.

  • If they use the text (or any other product) produced by an AI tool—be that by copying or paraphrasing that text or modifying an image—they must clearly reference the AI tool in the body of their work and add it to the bibliography.

  • The in-text citation should contain quotation marks using the referencing style already in use by the school and the citation should also contain the prompt given to the AI tool and the date the AI generated the text. 

The same applies to any other material that the student has obtained from other categories of AI tools—for example, images. 

For more information, click this link.  

NOTE - ASW teaches MLA citation style

Trick for Paraphrasing

Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting

Reword – Replace words and phrases with synonyms whenever you can.

Rearrange – Rearrange words within sentences to make new sentences. You can even rearrange the ideas presented within the paragraph.

Recheck – Make sure that your paraphrase conveys the same meaning as the original text.

Realize that some words and phrases cannot be changed – names, dates, titles, etc. cannot be replaced, but you can present them differently in your paraphrase.

Sentence Starters