Interpretation of question
1. Every word counts -
With reference to either one developed country or one developing country, discuss the social and economic effects of large movement of population. (9)
2. Fail to plan, plan to fail
Identify key points to decide number of paragraphs to write. Decide what is important and focus of the question. This is an extremely general question and some you will conveniently overlook the (9) and give a 9 page essay instead. Just imagine, there is internal migration, international migration, source area, receiving area, social effects, economic effects… wow so happy!
Anything that seems too good to be true is TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!
The focus of the essay is that ‘effects’, not the country. Given that it is worth only 9 marks, it’s not worth writing in details about the country, just brief references.
The first thing I need to do is to decide on the structure of the essay. The lecture notes have three main areas, demographic, social and economic effects. While demographic issues like population structure is not relevant, the resultant social effect is. For example, the unequal gender ratio is NOT relevant, but the resulting fertility issue and the social effects of incomplete families are.
I would focus on 3 – 4 issues that is easier to illustrate
Social integration and burden in receiving area
Income and reduction in regional disparity
Employment changes in source and receiving areas
Economic benefits and losses to the two areas
3. Identify resources from your mental database
For EMDC, I will chose UK because I learn about depressed and growing regions in the lesson on consequences of change in economic structure, for ELDC perhaps Brazil.
4. Technical Structure
· One paragraph, one main point
Each paragraph must be able to stand alone yet part of the theme of the entire essay
o Para 3 – Social conflicts in UK due to presence of international migrants (recall the London bombing?) and the
· Always start with the topic sentence, in this case the effects to be discussed.
· One sentence, one point, especially if your English is only as good as mine!
· End the paragraph with reference back to the question, clearly stating the effects again.
5. Answer in the context of the question
migration -> effects -> country
Focus on the key out-come of the question, which is the effects, not the cause of migration!
6. And if you can….
The best answer is able to evaluate if the issues are the result of migration or merely aggravated by migration
However, this should be done after
You covered all the basic materials
You still have time
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