Discuss immigration and its effect in UK economy.
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The essay should be no more than 2000 words (+/- 10%).

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  1. Discuss immigration and its effect in UK economy. How will you be marked? A marking scheme is included below and this provides detail as to what to expect in general essay based assessments. For more guidance around this scheme, specifically I will be looking for the following items:  The use of economic analysis: remember this is an economics essay and therefore the economic analysis and economic principles should come first. This is most easily demonstrated either through using graphs (as they stand out quite well) or through specifically making reference to economic principles (for example, allocation, demand and supply, diminishing marginal returns, etc.). All essays should at least make reference to some point of the textbook.  The use of external resources: although the economic concepts are meant to drive everything, using external resources adds weight and empirical reference to your arguments. What I am really looking for is an application by you to analysing a specific issue using economic principles, and using external resources is a good demonstration of this.  Remember that academia is really a skill of ‘standing on shoulders of giants’ by which it is meant that the first thing you should do is understand what others have said and think.  Structure: make everything clear and concise and have a clear narrative. The best way to do this is to have a clear structure from the outset. Although not prescriptive, and this will depend on the question you undertake, you might think of a structure similar to the following: Introduction
    Application of textbook economic ideas
    Empirical observations and external resources Conclusions  Clarity of argument: in all your work, try and have one clear narrative running through your work. You do this by stating your argument in the introduction and then systematically returning to this throughout the main body. You may think that you are being clear and subtle, but often, this is not the case.  There will also be 5 marks available for self-reflection. At the end of your essay (on the final page – after your references and any appendices you might have) you will be required to both give your essay a mark you would anticipate to receive and the reason for this. This is an exercise to engage and reflect on the quality of your work. Marks will be given for the depth of your reflection on the strengths and weaknesses of your essay and for how accurate these are. Note that the self-reflection does not contribute towards your word count. Referencing Slides with instructions regrading referencing can be found on the Blackboard. As with all assessments, the Harvard referencing style will be used. To give some general advice (to add to the slides attached on the Blackboard):  Get a website you are happy with that tells you how to reference. A popular one nowadays is CiteThemRight (http://www.citethemrightonline.com/).  Note that to cite something in the body of the text is different from your final references section. The idea is that you can read some general information in the body that does not upset the flow of the document [……., Smith (2014)] and then the interested reader can then go from that brief reference, to the references section to get the full details. With these, the reader can then go to the original source in order to see what this says. The idea is that there is a flow, or an ‘audit-trail’.  All direct quotes should have ‘quotation marks’ and if you do a direct quote you should include page numbers of specifically where to find the direct quote.  References of ideas (i.e. not a direct quote) do not need these page numbers but still need to be associated to where the idea comes from.

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