Apriastuti Puspitasari
Higher Intermediate IV - BK08010334
THE CONSEQUENSES OF
Created by: Apriastuti Puspitasari BK08010334 Higher Intermediate IV
LEMBAGA BAHASA & PENDIDIKAN PROFESIONAL LIA BEKASI, 2008 1
Apriastuti Puspitasari
Higher Intermediate IV - BK08010334
NARROWING DOWN THE TOPIC
Sleep
Sleep Deprivation
The Effects of Sleep Deprivation
The Bad Effects of Sleep Deprivation
ESSAY DESCRIPTION General Topic
: Sleep
Specific Topic
: The bad effects of Sleep Deprivation
Writing Purpose
Affect cognitive capabilities
Affect psychological conditions
Affect psychomotor skills
: To persuade people not to ignore the need of sleeping although in a busy day
Type of Writing
: Argumentation
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Apriastuti Puspitasari
Higher Intermediate IV - BK08010334
THE OUTLINE I. Introductory Thesis Statement: Sleep deprivation will affect our cognitive capabilities, psychological conditions, and psychomotor skills. II. Body Paragraph A. It can decrease cognitive capabilities. 1. difficult to concentrate 2. difficult to remember the important thing 3. difficult to use their logical thinking B. It can affect psychological conditions. 1. do not have self-motivation 2. do not have self-control C. It can affect psychomotor skills. 1. eye 2. hand 3. foot III. Concluding Paragraph Concluding Statement: Too little sleep can influence our intellectual capabilities, emotions, and motor performances.
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Apriastuti Puspitasari
Higher Intermediate IV - BK08010334
Abstract
The essay will try to make people realize that there are a lot of effects when we have sleep deprivation. Sleeping is needed to make our body in rest after working during the day. Because we don’t have enough time for sleep, we ignore it and finally our activity will be disturbed. Lack of sleeping can influence our cognitive capabilities, psychological conditions, and psychomotor skills. Everyone can be attacked by sleep deprivation in a bustle and hustle schedule, so we can manage our time especially to sleep and make it priority by put it on your “to do list”.
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Apriastuti Puspitasari
Higher Intermediate IV - BK08010334
The Consequences of Sleep Deprivation
In this modern era, a lot of people ignore their quality and quantity of sleep. For them, sleeping is only an activity which must be done to run away from their hustle and bustle schedule. They feel that they do not have enough time for sleep, whereas sleeping is a basic necessity of life which is important to do. Before Thomas Alva Edison’s invention of light bulb, people slept an average of 10 hours a night, but today, from The 2002 National Sleep Foundation, they sleep an average of 6,9 hours on weeknights and 7,5 hours per night on weekends. Although our society has changed, our brain and body have not. Other research also said that in America sleep deprivation and sleep disorder spend over $100 billion annually in lost productivity, medical expenses, property and environmental damage. Accordingly, sleep deprivation will affect our cognitive capabilities, psychological conditions, and our psychomotor skills. Sleep deprivation will decrease our cognitive capabilities. Lack of sleeping will make us difficult to concentrate fast because by sleeping the function of brain to concentrate will be better. For example, teenagers can not absorb the lesson because they feel sleepy and tired. Besides, the research certainly has shown that sleeping too little can decrease our ability to remember important
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Higher Intermediate IV - BK08010334
thing and absorb information. Students, who cram for examination at night, can be attacked by “forgetful syndrome”, because their brain can not work properly and their memory can lose spontaneously. Not enough sleep also makes people do not have creative abilities to use their logical thinking in work. Consequently, it can reduce their productivity. It can also affect our psychological conditions. Sleep deprivation will make us have demotivated. We become a pessimistic people because our concentration in thinking has decreased, like teenagers who are facing the final exam they do not have self motivation to pass it because they feel sleepy and can not concentrate to do their examination. Sleeping too little also make us do not have self-control. One of the functions of sleep is to repair our physical condition after solving a lot of emotional problems and intellectual activities. Hence, not enough sleep can give us excessive worry, depression, and a long period of stress. Our psychomotor skills will be influenced by lack of sleeping. It disturbs eye coordination, because it can cause the trouble of eye movement. Moreover in the long period, it can cause nystagmus (rapid involuntary rhythmic eye movement) which can disturb the function of eye. When we drive a vehicle, it requires the coordination of horizontal eye movements and steering. It is important because there is a lot of
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traffic accident which was caused by sleepy driver. For our hand, sleep deprivation also influence its coordination. Our hand not only can be attacked by tremor but also can disturb an athlete in sport with hand. Besides, sleep deprivation also influences foot coordination. For instance, football players, they must have psychomotor vigilance in their foot to increase their fast reaction to win football match. However if they have sleep deprivation, the psychomotor vigilance of their foot can not be controlled. Therefore in football club, there is a regulation that prohibits their player to stay up all night, and then will give them a punishment if they still do it. This regulation was established because they believe that sleeping can influence the performance of their football player. Too little sleep can affect our intellectual capabilities, emotions, and motor performances. To reduce our behavior in sleep deprivation, we can manage our activity so that we have time to sleep. We need to change the attitude that workaholics are more productive than the rest of us. We must be aware that one-third of our life in this world is spent for sleeping and taking rest, which indirectly, are very important to the success of two-third others in our life. So, to have a good quality and quantity of sleep, time management is the key.
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