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Essay at LIA English Course Bekasi, Higher Intermediate IV, 2008.Created by: Apriastuti Puspitasari, BK08010334
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Apriastuti Puspitasari Higher Intermediate IV - BK08010334
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THE CONSEQUENSES OF
Created by:
Apriastuti Puspitasari
BK08010334
Higher Intermediate IV
LEMBAGA BAHASA & PENDIDIKAN PROFESIONAL LIA
BEKASI, 2008
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NARROWING DOWN THE TOPIC
ESSAY DESCRIPTION
General Topic : Sleep
Specific Topic : The bad effects of Sleep Deprivation
Affect cognitive capabilities
Affect psychological conditions
Affect psychomotor skills
Writing Purpose : To persuade people not to ignore the need of
sleeping although in a busy day
Type of Writing : Argumentation
Sleep
Sleep Deprivation
The Effects of Sleep Deprivation
The Bad Effects of Sleep Deprivation
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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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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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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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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.