ELC590

TEMPLATE: PREPARATION OUTLINE

PERSUASIVE SPEECH

Student’s Name : Nurul Aina Najwa Binti Azlan

Matric Number : 2018226042
Faculty / Group : EH2201E
Lecturer’s Name : Miss Chittra a/p Muthusamy

Speech Title : Sleep deprivation could shave years off your life
Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
Visual Aid : Power point slides
General Purpose : To persuade
Specific Purpose : To persuade my audience to sleep adequately every day helps keep
your mind and body healthy.
Central Idea : We need to sleep adequately to maintain our health, increase
performance of memory and learning and lowers risk of getting
depression.

Introduction

(Monroe’s Motivated Sequence  Attention)

I. Let us sit back and think are we getting enough sleep nowadays, with assignments,
projects, and works pilling.
II. I am sure that most of us have the experience of sacrificing our precious sleep in
order to meet life demands.
III. No matter how demanding our life could be, getting adequate sleep is a must to
ensure our body and mind works well.
IV. Question is how many hours of sleep are adequate?
V. 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.
VI. 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.
VII. Today, I am targeting to persuade all of you to understand the importance of getting
adequate sleep and of course not only understand but practicing as well.

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

(Monroe’s Motivated Sequence  Need)

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. (Living, 2012)
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 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 a key to a good heart
health, according to researchers at the Center for Cohort Studies at
Kangbuk Samsung Hospital and Sungkyunkwan University 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 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 decelerate aging
process.

(Transition: Let’s have an insight on how adequate sleep posed on our memory and learning
performance.)

II. Do you know that adequate sleep also gives 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 (Living, 2012)
(Williamson, 2017)
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 sleep selectively
benefiting the consolidation of different types of memory.
3. Sleep deprivation has been shown to lead to reduced attention and
short-term of working memory.
4. This in turn influences what gets saved as long-term episodic
memories, but it also impacts the performance of higher-level cognitive
functions such as decision-making and reasoning.
5. As you can see, adequate sleep is very important towards our quality
of memory and learning performance.
B. 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: So, what’s the solution?)

(Monroe’s Motivated Sequence  Satisfaction)

III. There are different ways to treat sleep deprivation.
A. Someone who is sleep-deprived should have a fixed bedtime and a fixed time
to wake up every morning.
1. Catching up on weekends with sleep does not work.
2. Expose yourself to bright light in the morning instead of night, this will
help your brain recognize when it’s time for bed and you sleep better.

B. If someone sleeps longer they can avoid the negative effects of sleep
deprivation.
1. Naps are helpful as long as they are not too late in the afternoon.
C. People who exercise regularly are more likely to be tired at night and fall asleep
faster (Williamson, 2000).
1. Exercising regularly can help reduce the risk of cardiovascular
morbidity by keeping the blood vessels pumping even at night.
D. Create a good environment for you to sleep in.
1. Keep wherever you are sleeping clean, so going to bed will seem like
relief instead of a hassle.
E. Lastly, avoid large meals before bed.
1. Your body’s metabolism will work faster if your meals are not close to
bed time.
2. Large meals before bed will keep you awake because your stomach is
too full to shut down.

(Transition: Jumping to the next point, this has connection with depression.)

(Monroe’s Motivated Sequence  Visualization)

IV. Adequate sleep contributes in lowering the risk of getting depression.
A. Well, sleep alone cannot be the sole factor that contributes to depression.
(Iliades, 2012)
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 emotions and make us depressed
throughout the day.
3. Hence, all of us need adequate amount of sleep to lower the risk of
getting depression.
A. 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 member knew Mitchell’s mental health had deteriorated, as he
had 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.

Conclusion

(Monroe’s Motivated Sequence  Action)

I. As you could see, it is crystal clear that insufficient sleep will impose lots of bad impact on
us.
II. Needless to say, adequate sleep is very important for us to maintain our overall health and
performance.
III. Thus, to those who had made sleeping late as his/her habit, start today by changing your
sleeping time and you will feel the difference.
 References

Bradberry, T. (2014, December 1). Sleep Deprivation Is Killing You and Your Career.
Retrieved from Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2014/12/01/skipping-sleep-is-career-
suicide/

Davis, K. (2018). What's to know about sleep deprivation?

Retrieved from MedicalNewsToday:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/307334.php

Iliades, C. (2012). Depression and Sleep: Getting the Right Amount.

Retrieved from Everyday Health: https://www.everydayhealth.com/hs/major
depression/depression-and-sleep-the-right-amount/

Living, H. H. (2012). Sleep Is Integral To Weight Loss, Study Suggests.

Retrieved from Huffpost: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sleep-weight
loss_n_1891171

Williamson, A. (2017). Memory and Sleep.

Retrieved from Tuck: https://www.tuck.com/memory-and-sleep/