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Hodgkinson Analysis

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Outline I. Thesis statement: On the other hand, the author seems to be missing some important points and there some misconceptions presented in the topic as he wanted to prove his point of taking extra hours of sleep regardless of people’s different lifestyles. II. Counter argument: Hodgkinson, the writer, offers some good points in his article that must be considered. A. Indeed researchers think that giving teens an extra hour of sleep will improve their performance in exams. i. Brain scans suggest that sleep improves brain power. ii. Study made by researchers on the two groups of mice is actually convincing regarding the fact that sleep facilitates long term memory. B. The …show more content…

False assumptions: Unfortunately, there are a number of false assumptions made by the writer. A. Assuming that early rising is a myth and that no one ever gets up early willingly as we are all night owls is wrong as there are many successful early risers in the world as ex-American President Barrack Obama and Richard Branson (a British billionaire and a business man) who prefer to be implementers and stay active. B. Despite the advantages of extra hour sleep or taking a nap, it seems that the author overlooked the disadvantages as sleep inertia developed due to taking long naps or having to go to school late than early which would require schools to also end later besides cutting into beneficial extracurricular activities and sports. IV. Problematic evidence: Another point of weakness in the article is related to the weak evidences oftenly used by the author. A. There is a few insufficient and unclear information in the article like when talking about the research made on teenagers in a hundred British school but didn’t mention who had done the research or what was the conclusion observed. Also when the author mentioned the study made by Andrew Young who is a diplomat as well as the study itself made on African sparrows making it all seems to be ambiguous and non-related to the

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