Persuasive Speech Outline

ELC 590 PREPARATION OUTLINE PERSUASIVE SPEECH Student’s Name: Ruqayyah binti Rashid Faculty/Group: Faculty of Civil Engineering/EC2205B Lecturer’s Name: Madam Zurina binti Zubir

Title

: Importance of Getting Adequate Sleep

Organisational Pattern : Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Visual Aid

: Microsoft Powerpoint slides

General Purpose

: To persuade

Specific Purpose

: To persuade my audience to sleep adequately every day.

Central idea

: We need to sleep adequately to maintain our health, increase performance of memory and learning and lowers risk of getting depression.

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Let us sit back and think are we having enough sleep nowadays, with assignments, projects and works piling? I am very sure that most of us have the experience of sacrificing our precious sleep in order to meet with life demands. No matter how demanding our life could be, getting adequate sleep is a must to ensure our body and mind works well. Question is how many hours of sleep are adequate? Adults should sleep 7 hours or more per night to promote optimal health. A. Sleeping less than 7 hours per night on a regular basis is associated with adverse health outcomes, including weight gain and obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and stroke, depression and increased risk of death. B. Sleeping less than 7 hours per night also associated with impaired immune function, increased pain, impaired performance, increased errors and greater risk of accidents. After doing a comprehensive research for this topic, realization hits me that getting adequate sleep on a daily basis is very important in our life. Today, I am targeting to persuade all of you to understand the importance of getting adequate sleep and of course not only understands but practicing as well.

(Transition: Now, allow me to bring to you the importance of getting adequate sleep.)

Body I. I believe you should know that sleep runs a deep relationship with our health. A. Adequate and good sleep is dream recipe to lose weight. 1. New studies provide evidence that insufficient sleep enhances hedonic stimulus processing in the brain underlying the drive to consume food; thus, insufficient sleep results in increased food intake. 2. In addition, lack of sleep has been reported to decrease plasma leptin levels, increase plasma ghrelin and cortisol levels, alter glucose homeostasis and activate the orexin system, all of which affect the control of appetite and might compromise the efficacy of dietary interventions. B.

Quality sleep builds a healthy heart. 1. Just the right amount of good-quality sleep is key to good heart health, according to researchers at the Center for Cohort Studies at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital and Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. 2. Poor sleep habits may put you at higher risk for early signs of heart disease, even at a relatively young age. C.

Adequate sleep decelerates the aging process. 1. During deep sleep, the rise in growth hormones allows damaged cells to become repaired. 2. Without the deeper phases of sleep, this won't occur, allowing daily small breakdowns to accumulate instead of being reversed overnight. 3. This results in more noticeable signs of aging. 4. So, getting adequate sleep will repair the cells and decelerates aging process.

(Transition: Let’s have an insight on how adequate sleep posed on our memory and learning performance.) II. Do you actually know that adequate sleep also give impacts on our memory and learning performance? A. The quantity and quality of sleep affect a person’s ability to remember, and sleep is a period where the brain consolidates memories. 1. Memory consolidation is the process by which newly acquired information, initially fragile, is integrated and stabilized into long-term memory. 2. Evidence suggests that sleep plays a role in the consolidation of a range of memory tasks, with the different stages of

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sleep selectively benefiting the consolidation of different types of memory. Sleep deprivation has been shown to lead to reduced attention and short-term or working memory. This in turn influences what gets saved as long-term episodic memories, but it also impacts the performance of higherlevel cognitive functions such as decision-making and reasoning. As you can see, adequate sleep is very important towards our quality of memory and learning performance.

Enough sleep is very important to enhance and maintain good learning’s performance 1. Sleep deprivation makes our focus, attention, and vigilance drift, making it more difficult to receive information. 2. Without adequate sleep and rest, over-worked neurons can no longer function to coordinate information properly, and we lose our ability to access previously learned information.

(Transition: Jumping to the last point, this has a connection with depression.) III.

Adequate sleep contributes in lowering the risk of getting depression. A. Well, sleep alone cannot be the sole factor that contributes to depression. B. But, what will happen if you skip your precious sleep? 1. Skipping sleep will negatively affect us by impairing our brain function across the board. i. It will slow down our ability to process information and problem solving, kills your creativity, and catapults your stress levels and emotional reactivity. 2. These, in turn mock our emotion and make us depressed throughout the day. 3. Hence, all of us need adequate amount of sleep to lower the risk of getting depression. C. In some cases, sleep deprivation may lead to suicide. 1. In March 2015, Graham Mitchell, a 48-year-old British psychiatric nurse, hanged himself in his garden. 2. Family members knew Mitchell’s mental health had deteriorated, as he’d become noticeably depressed in the wake of a few personal setbacks. 3. During the weeks before his death, Mitchell’s sister said he seemed shell-shocked. 4. But the inquest revealed issues of which Mitchell’s family was unaware, including his long time struggle with chronic insomnia.

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Conclusion As you could see, it is crystal clear that insufficient sleep will impose lots of bad impact on us.

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Needless to say, adequate sleep is very important for us to maintain our overall health and performance.

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Thus, to those who had made sleeping late as his/her habit, start today by changing your sleeping time and you’ll feel the difference!

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