- Excuse me, DR JOHNSON.
- May I speak to you for a minute?
- Sure.
- Come in.
- I'm MELANIE Griffin.
- I'm taking your course in Population studies.
- Right.
- Well. MELANIE how can I help you?
- I'm...
- I'm having a bit of trouble with the second assignment, and it's due in twelve days.
- What sort of trouble are you having?
- Is the assignment question a problem?
- Well, that's part of the problem.
- I'm also having, being having trouble getting hold of the books.
- I've been to the libary sereval times, and all the books are out.
- Sounds like you should have started borrowing books a bit earlier.
- Well, I had a really big assignment due in for another course, and I've been spending all my time on that, and I thought...
- You might get an extension of time to finish your assighment for me?
- If that's possible, but I don't know...
- Well, yes, it is possible, but extensions are normally given only for medical or compassionate reasons, otherwise it's really a question of organising your study, and we don't like giving a extensions to students who simply didn't plan their work properly.
- What did you get for your first assignment?
- I got eighty-seven Percent.
- Mmm, yes, you did very well indeed, so obviously you can produce good work.
- I don't think I'll need too much extra time, as long as I can get hold of some of the important references.
- Well, since you did so well in your first assignment.
- I'm prepared to give you an extra two weeks for this one, so that'll mean you'll need to submit it about a month from now.
- Thank you.
- Now, waht about the reading materials?
- Have you checked out the journal articles on the list?
- Umm, no, not yet, there were about twenty of them, and I wan't sure which ones would be most useful or important.
- Well, they're all useful, but I don't expect anyone to raed them all, because a number of them deal with the same issues.
- Let me give you some suggestions.
- The article by Anderson and Hawker is really worth reading.
- Right.
- I'll read that one.
- You should also read the article by Jackson, but just look at the part on the research methodology, how they did it.
- Ok.
- Jackson, got that.
- And if you have time, the one by Roberts says very relevant things, although it's not essential.
- So, Ok, if it's useful, I'll try and read that one.
- Now, the one be Morris.
- I wouldn't bother with that at this stage, if I were you.
- Ok, I won't bother with Morris.
- Oh, now, someone told me the article by Cooper is important.
- Well, yes, in a way, but just look at the last part, where he discusses the rasearch results.
- And lastly, there's Forster, I can't think why I included that one.
- It's not bad and could be of some help, but not that much.
- Now, let's deal with the assignment question.
- What's the problem there?
- It's the graph on page two.
- What seems to be the problem?
- It's just the bar graph showing reasons why people change where they live.
- Well.
- I've got a photocopy but the reasons at the bottom are missing.
- Ah, OK.
- Look at the first bar on the graph, now that indicates the numer of people who move because they want more space.
- Oh I see.
- bar one.
- OK.
- Now what about the next bar?
- Bar two is to do with the people living nearby disturbing them, so they choose to move away to somewhere quieter.
- Now let's at bar number three.
- Another reason people change their place of living is because they want to be closer to the city.
- OK.
- Proximity to the city isn an issue.
- Now.
- bar number four refers to problems when the owner of the property won't help fix things that go wrong.
- In other words, the owner is not helpeful and so the tenants move out.
- OK.
- Now waht about bar five?
- Bar five is about those people who move because they need a bus or train to get them into the city or to go to work.
- OK.
- And bar six?
- Bar numer six is interesting.
- That reason was given quite a lot, people moving because they wanted to be in a more attractive neighbourhood.
- Oh, yes, thank you very much.