TOK Essay Outline—Due to Turnitin.com on October A-27th/B-28th

  1. Use all past readings, discussions, controversies, journals, and essays. Use your IB classroom experiences (the texts and the teachers) and what is happening in the world.
  1. Use your TOK words—sense perception, language, emotion, reason, intuition, imagination, memory, faith, the areas, belief, knowledge, evidence, justified, eternal, universal, certainty,culture, experience, intuition, imagination, technology, explanation, understanding, interpretation, analysis, method, justification, facts, sources, truth, trust, authority, expert, values, bias, selection; these are important.
  1. Consider the “knowledge issue/s” you will be addressing.
  1. Type up or fill in the following items in a bulleted fashion. Clearly labeling each part.
  1. a. Title/question # ______asks that you discuss:

b. the assumptions/claims of this title/question are:

c. the possible counter claims of or in this title/question are:

d. the further knowledge issue questions for this title are:

  1. What terms must you define clearly and concisely, and what are your definitions for those words? A definition of knowledge?Personal? Public? Justified? Eternal? Universal? True?

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

  1. What THREE areas of knowledge could you discuss? Choose disparate areas. Your choices are INDIGENOUS SYSTEMS, RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS, MATHEMATICS, NATURAL SCIENCES, HUMAN SCIENCES, HISTORY, ARTS(literature, poetry, music, dance, painting, graffiti, photography, etc.), and ETHICS.

I.

II.

III.

  1. How do some of the ways of knowing influenceyour title’s issue(s) for good and for bad?

Emotion—

Reason—

Language—

Perception—

Intuition-

Imagination-

Memory-

Faith-

  1. What specific examples would work well with this question?

I.AREA ONE:

i. Specific example one (internal citation)

pros/strengths/helps/satisfactory nature:

cons/weaknesses/hurts/unsatisfactory nature:

ways of knowing influences:

ii. Specific example two (internal citation)

pros/strengths/helps/satisfactory nature:

cons/weaknesses/hurts/unsatisfactory nature:

ways of knowing influences:

II. AREA TWO:

  1. Specific example one (internal citation)

pros/strengths/helps/satisfactory nature:

cons/weaknesses/hurts/unsatisfactory nature:

ways of knowing influences:

ii. Specific example two (internal citation)

pros/strengths/helps/satisfactory nature:

cons/weaknesses/hurts/unsatisfactory nature:

ways of knowing influences:

III. POSSIBLEAREA THREE:

i. Specific example one (internal citation)

pros/strengths/helps/satisfactory nature:

cons/weaknesses/hurts/unsatisfactory nature:

ways of knowing influences:

ii. Specific example two (internal citation)

pros/strengths/helps/satisfactory nature:

cons/weaknesses/hurts/unsatisfactory nature:

ways of knowing influences:

  1. What personal example from TOK or some other course/event would fit this prompt? Include (internal citation).
  1. What cultural example could act as either a support or a counter to your argument and/or other examples? Include (internal citation).

11.What should someone who wants to know do in light of your further questions, examples, counterarguments, discussion, and conclusion?

12. Considering all the points above, write your thesis for this paper.

13.Type a full Works Cited page according to all given examples in outline.