Paper 2 Activity 2

Guatemala September 6th 2011

Dear Luis:

Hello Luis, how are you going? I hope that you are fine. It has been long time since we last talked. You don´t finish too tell me, what happen with the problem with your girlfriend? You can solve it? We need to get together to catch up. The reason why I’m writing you is because your sister told to my sister that you have serious problem with the IB program, to be more specific, with your TOK´s essay. Do you know that I am in the same program? I can give you some advices with your essay, I have been worked in my essay 7 moths so I have some tips that I can shared with you.

Theory of Knowledge is a requirement that you need to course to get the diploma, but this material make you think using all the classes you have in your school. You will know the role of the knowledge in the world, the influence and the importance that knowledge have in our life. I´m toll you this because you need to realize how much important is TOK in the education. The TOK’s essay is and essay about a specific title that the IB give to you, you can choose one. Whatever you choose, each title raises generic cross-disciplinary questions about knowledge, so you need to write to answer the question.

To answer this question in a good way and to get an A in the score, you will need to do some requirements. First of all in your essay you need to talk about one or two ways of knowledge, there are only four; sense perception, reason, emotion and language. The most of the time the title give to you the way of knowledge, but it is important to you know it. Second you need to response the title question with an others question of knowledge. This questions need to be related with the title because the development of these questions will help you answer the question of the tittle, is good to use at least four of this question of knowledge. Then when you will development the questions you need to support your ideas with examples and your examples need to be focus in one of the areas of knowledge. There are 6 areas of knowledge; mathematics, natural sciences, human sciences, history, the arts and ethics. It is recommendable to use at least 4 areas of knowledge, because this is the way that you will prove that you know. And other way to support your ideas is making citations of an investigation or book that support what you are saying, always using some areas of knowledge. Finally the conclusion, you need conclude with the answer of the question using what you write in the beginning.

So that are the advices that I know about TOK’s essay, I hope to help you in something and if you need more help send me your essay and I will see what I can do.

Sincerely you:

Danilo De Leon.