Sleep Deprivation Speech Outline
Effects of Sleep Deprivation on College Students
Brant McMillan
Specific purpose: I want my audience to know the harms of sleep deprivation so it may make them more conscious about their sleeping habits.
Thesis: Sleep deprivation has many negative effects that cause harm to college students and everyone should know how to fight sleep deprivation
Introduction
How many of you consider your alarm clock one of your worst enemies? Imagine your alarm clock just rang, and it is time for school. How many of you are still tired? As stated on the Sleep Deprivation website by the National Sleep Foundation in 2005, 74% of adults do not obtain enough sleep.
And as a typical college student, I have experienced a lack of sleep time and time again. Sleep …show more content…
College students with medical-related majors are more likely to have poorer quality of sleep in comparison to those with a humanities major.
College students who pull "all-nighters" are more likely to have a lower GPA.
Students who stay up late on school nights and make up for it by sleeping late on weekends are more likely to perform poorly in the classroom. This is because, on weekends, they are waking up at a time that is later than their internal body clock expects. The fact that their clock must get used to a new routine may affect their ability to be awake early for school at the beginning of the week when they revert back to their old routine.
Transition: The effects of sleep deprivation are substantial, which is why one should seek treatment.
III. Sleep deprivation is not a helpless matter
A. Sleep doctors and sleep experts at American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the National Sleep Foundation recommend a variety of measures to help adults and children achieve adequate sleep. In general, all of these approaches are intended to help with relaxation as the desired sleep time approaches, to maintain a comfortable sleep environment, and to encourage a healthful balance of nutrition and
Brant McMillan
Specific purpose: I want my audience to know the harms of sleep deprivation so it may make them more conscious about their sleeping habits.
Thesis: Sleep deprivation has many negative effects that cause harm to college students and everyone should know how to fight sleep deprivation
Introduction
How many of you consider your alarm clock one of your worst enemies? Imagine your alarm clock just rang, and it is time for school. How many of you are still tired? As stated on the Sleep Deprivation website by the National Sleep Foundation in 2005, 74% of adults do not obtain enough sleep.
And as a typical college student, I have experienced a lack of sleep time and time again. Sleep …show more content…
College students with medical-related majors are more likely to have poorer quality of sleep in comparison to those with a humanities major.
College students who pull "all-nighters" are more likely to have a lower GPA.
Students who stay up late on school nights and make up for it by sleeping late on weekends are more likely to perform poorly in the classroom. This is because, on weekends, they are waking up at a time that is later than their internal body clock expects. The fact that their clock must get used to a new routine may affect their ability to be awake early for school at the beginning of the week when they revert back to their old routine.
Transition: The effects of sleep deprivation are substantial, which is why one should seek treatment.
III. Sleep deprivation is not a helpless matter
A. Sleep doctors and sleep experts at American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the National Sleep Foundation recommend a variety of measures to help adults and children achieve adequate sleep. In general, all of these approaches are intended to help with relaxation as the desired sleep time approaches, to maintain a comfortable sleep environment, and to encourage a healthful balance of nutrition and