One of the learning outcomes I was able to do in both the NY Times Summary and the Scholarly article analysis was practice strengthening sources including evaluating, integrating, quoting paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesizing, analyzing, and citing sources. On the other hand, I did not know what to include specifically when I was told to specify the main events. While writing the first draft, I wrote in details about all the experiment that took place in the study. Later on, my peers said, “You need to summarize the experiments into the main parts.” Then, for the final draft I tried to minimize the details and replaced it with all the major findings .Similarly, for the second assignment, I did not know how to properly write the review. From using the notes discussed in class and the textbook, I had a general idea of what this essay was going to be about; however I had a feeling that I was not incorporating all the details from the IMRAD format.

 

The Cons Of Losing Sleep
Ever since humans attached themselves to social media through the use of technology, they lost a good amount of sleep every night. Then, the following morning when it is time to go to school or work, we often feel the physical effects of sleep. But, we need to consider the effects of sleep on the body. The New York Times article, “Why It Hurts to Lose Sleep,” by Benedict Carey, mentions all the pains our body faces when we do not sleep for a sufficient amount of time. The purpose of this article was to inform people who sleep late or who are sleep deprived of losing sleep. The article concludes that not having enough sleep will lead to people having terrible aches and pain in their body.
The article is about how sleep deprivation can worsen an individual’s existing pain. When the pain from sleep deprivation in the body is not cured, it sends a signal from the nerves to the brain. Then the nerve region tries to overcome the burning sensation. Throughout the article, Carey tries to explain how the amount of sleep can change the aftermath of the pain. Carey explains the main idea of the three experiments subsequently was to understand how sleep deprivation can change the pathway functions. In this article, Carey demonstrated three different experiments that related to each other. From experiment one, researchers found that chronic pain is reduced by fifteen percent by going through one night of sleep deprivation. After the results from one experiment, he wanted to know more about the result by doing a couple more experiments. The second experiment showed that there was an increase of sensational pain and a lack of use of natural analgesic reaction. The third finding was that sleep plays a big role for memory and the use of the practice will take another ten years. Consequently, this experiment caused researchers to be curious of this result. Hence, there were many experiments to figure out if the result of the first experiment was consistent.
Carey informs his audience that body aches can have an effect on sleep by providing three experiments as his evidence. Within those experiments, he used statistics to show how the experiment impacted the variable either positively or negatively. Interestingly, Carey started his article by stating how chronic body pain and sleep deprivation are related. Another way Carey was able to make his evidence reliable was by asking professors from Harvard Medical School, one of the directors of the Center for Human Sleep Science at U.C. Berkeley, and another director of the sleep disorders branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The main audience of this article is those who experience pain from sleeping late at night and those who are studying sleep disorders. Carey was able to keep the readers informed by listing all the causes for why people experience terrible body pain. Lastly, through words of persuading and informing his audience, he was able to educate his readers by explaining the results from the three experiments.

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