FENG0134 Youth Political Apathy Individual Assignment Brief 2025 | APU

FENG0134 Formulating Arguments (Cause And Effect)

Your writing partner wrote an initial draft for a cause and effect essay and received some feedback from the lecturer. You now have to improve it for the final submission. Use the notes to refine this draft.

Note: Citations can be direct quotations or paraphrases. You do not need to correct any sentences, spelling or grammar errors or add/delete any other content.

In the 2022 general elections, 18 to 40-year-olds became part of the biggest electoral bloc in the history of Malaysia. Yet despite such a growth in numbers, experts generally predicted that not many of these young voters would even turn up to the ballot. For instance, a survey by the Merdeka Centre found "only 40% of Malay Muslim youths are keen to cast their ballots" ("Only 40% of Malay youths", 2022). Such low turnout, at state and national levels, can be linked to the concept of political apathy, a lack of interest in political processes, including voting. This issue affects young people not just in Malaysia but across the world.

Commented [DC1]: 1. Thesis statement is missing. Write an appropriate thesis statement for the essay. [2m]

Among the main causes of youths' political apathy is a lack of faith in the political process of politics. Why care when politicians, decision makers and other people in power do not seem to reciprocate? In Malaysia itself, for example, politicians "are unlikely to deal with matters that youths are most engaged in, such as job prospects and the education system".