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[Aaron Doug Lum]

Hi IBS,

Quite new to being a member here but i've been reading things here for a long time now.

I was hoping to receive just small guidance on structure of the essay, despite how late it is already (i've just finished my first year of IB and I probably need to hand this in by about October and i'm about to finish my final draft before i go back to school next week.)

The thing is, i'm actually a HL Chem and Bio student so I dont take ESS, but I have a lot of interest in working in environmental departments in the future and I've conducted an experiment on fish tanks using a chemical called lanthanum chloride to remove phosphates in water. For those hardcore ESS students out there, this is essentially a eutrophication essay. If there's something fundamentally wrong with that already, please do point it out.

That being said, i'm writing the paper in basically the style of an IA for chem, bio i.e. intro, hypothesis, aim, safety, design, raw data, qualitative, analysis, conclusion and evaluation.

that being said, does that in ANY way sound about right?

Thanks everyone for the replies,
just another grateful IB student

[blenderer]

About the structure: In addition to "intro, hypothesis, aim, safety, design, raw data, qualitative, analysis, conclusion and evaluation" you also need an abstract, a contents page and bibliography, as well as a title page. Just by remembering these required structural elements you can already get some precious marks!