Persuasive Essay Proposal: Lack Of Sleep In Middle School

Sleep, something I am great at and can find myself doing all day. It was late before my research essay proposal was due and I had just woken up from a nap. The thought came to me instantly and so I began my essay on sleep. My topic was not on sleep itself but it was the effects of lack sleep because in middle school and elementary school, I always found myself being tired and class and blaming it on school starting too early. I wanted to get across a point on what the effects were if I didn’t get the proper 8 hours asleep a night because I would constantly get preached to about how important it is. In addition, my persuasive essay was very similar so I had a hold on the topic at hand already. When I started my essay, I was unsure of

The journal articles for my essay included; Does Lack of Sleep Cause Diabetes, The Effects of Sleep Restriction and Extension on School‐Age Children: What a Difference an Hour Makes, Chronic Lack of Sleep Is Associated With Increased Sports Injuries in Adolescent Athletes, Time in Bed, Quality of Sleep and School Functioning of Children, Tired, Weak, or in Need of Rest: Fatigue among General Practice Attenders, Patterns of Sleep and Sleepiness in Adolescents, and Personality and the Modulation of Effects of Sleep Loss on Mood and Cognition. Based on the names alone, they all have a similar theme which is the effects of lack of sleep. They all happen to be negative effects, whether it health effects, effects on the mind and beliefs, injury, or performance. So, I located the sources based off of the titles and the descriptions and abstracts of the journals, articles, or studies. Now, I needed to analyze the data and information of these

I found that reading the introduction helped me determine what each source was about or trying to study. Then, I would skim the text all the down to the data or results. Here, I found what the study had accomplished and whether or not the data was significant enough to make a claim that the data was enough to make a claim that there actually was an effect. I was able to do this because I am in statistics class and we focused on significant data for a whole unit, so I was able to understand what the data had meant in the articles. After, I would read the analysis to see the conclusion of the authors and determine whether or not I should use the data in my research essay. For example in an article about lack of sleep and the effects it has on self belief it states “Sleep loss for 29±35 h caused significant deficits in logical reasoning performance and in POMS total mood” (Blagrove 828). I found this in the analysis part of the study and the author was able to make this claim because the data was significant. By this, I was certain that the information would fit perfectly into my essay which leads me into how I integrated the information into my