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Today's Exhausted Superkids Analysis

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In Frank Bruni’s editorial, “Today’s Exhausted Superkids,” he talks about the lack of sleep present in many high school and college students. He attributes this loss in sleep to a variety of factors; although he seems to place the blame mainly on education. He blames the stress of getting good grades on the widespread lack of sleep. Throughout his article, Bruni used many studies and other writings to support his points. My opinion on Bruni’s editorial is that it was ineffective in getting the main point across. I agree with many of the points that Mr. Bruni brought up, but I feel that the information he used and the way he wrote the editorial were uneffective. He did use actual facts in some spots, though I feel they were used at the wrong parts throughout the editorial. His main arguments were very unorganized. The evidence used by Bruni in his editorial was not very effective at getting his point across. Most of the evidence that he used throughout his paper were theories; theories are not always true however. In his editorial, he placed a study about the lack of sleep present in high schools directly above a study about the small amount of sleep that the average college student gets each night, making the two different studies seem correlated. Throughout the course of the paper, Bruni …show more content…

While discussing the studies done in the Silicon Valley, he brought up unrelated topics; topics including the slogan contest at the high school. When Bruni talked about the papers that other people wrote, he would discuss what they wrote, jump to an unrelated topic, then return to what the person said. Bruni would also change the topic from the lack of sleep present in students to why sleep is important for those students. I felt that he should have focused on one of those two subjects to write about, instead of trying to talk about both. Trying to discuss both caused his ideas to appear

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