P1) Heavy caffeine consumption diminishes academic performance, according to the Haq and Walsh study conducted at Bethel University. Because of the “high demands ans stresses of college, and graduate school,” they say,
it is not surprising that many students sacrifice sleep and substitute with caffeine for the sake of their academic performance. Most students are unaware of the potential repercussions of these behaviors. Associated with these habits of excess caffeine consumption and sleep deficiency, students are not meeting weekly exercise recommendations. Due to busy schedules, nearly 40-50% of college students are deemed physically inactive.1
Which we find is a result of them ignoring their well-being and instead focusing more on the lines of their academic performance. It leaves us unaware of what’s happening to our body as it’s being constancy on overdrive all the time which affects us heavily.
P2) This highlights some of the impacts that we experience from consuming caffeine and our sleep cycle is greatly affected. When we try to get at least a good 1 to 2-hour nap we can’t due to the caffeine that we drank still being their system. As a result, it leaves,
“Most people benefit from at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night, which is an adequate amount of time for a person to complete a regular sleep cycle. When students lose sleep, they disrupt their sleep cycles and their bodies respond by decreasing their ability to concentrate and complete complex tasks.” 2
Any chance of sleep that we try to get is interrupted due to the caffeine in our system which reduces the amount of deep sleep we all enjoy. Us consuming caffeine earlier in the afternoon or evening which makes it even harder for us to concentrate during either class or get some sleep. Sleep helps our body stay healthy and by our sleep cycle is disrupted it causes us to lose our focus on anything which impacts our academic performance.
P3) Studies have shown that the amount of caffeine impacts our sleep and academics by having participants take surveys that give us their opinions. It’s found that those who are non-consumers have better sleeping patterns, compared to those who are consumers to have shorter periods of sleep. We found that this
” study consists of a four section anonymous, Qualtrics online survey with a series of questions regarding caffeine consumption, sleep, and academics. The total amount (mg) of caffeine consumed and total sleep duration was determined for each participant. Results found that non-consumers have longer sleep duration (p=0.002) and higher GPA compared to the consumers group (p< 0.001), non-caffeine consumers have longer sleep duration compared to the high level of caffeine consumption (p=0.041), and that males consume a greater amount (mg) of caffeine than females (p=0.024).3
It seems that caffeine consumers who are males have a higher amount of caffeine intake than females which I found to be surprising as I believed they both would have an equal amount of caffeine that was consumed. They tell us that females get longer sleep than males when consuming caffeine and that males are likely to get shorter sleep when consuming caffeine.
P4) Daily intake of caffeine consumption has impacted sleep quality, according to the National Library of Medicine it may affect our academic performance and health. Due to the “eating habits and weight loss mechanisms” that they say maybe
“related to sleep quality have generally been inconclusive. This study explored total daily caffeine consumption (along with different sources of caffeine) as well as dieting and exercising to lose weight in the last 30 days as risk factors for poor sleep quality among an undergraduate university population.” 4
The National Library of Medicine has identified “total daily caffeine consumption” from all sources, “as well as dieting and exercising to lose weight” as “risk factors for poor sleep quality among an undergraduate university population” that are detrimental to academic performance and overall health.
References
- Saira Haq & Katelyn M. Walsh. (2018) Examining the Effects of Caffeine, Sleep and Exercise on the Academic Performance of PA Students. Bethel University ↩︎
- Otenyo, Jane Kate. (2015). Sleeping Habits and Sleep Deprivation Among College Students. University of Arizona ↩︎
- Gabrish, Danielle L. (2017). Caffeine Use, Hours of Sleep, and Academic Performance of Undergraduate College Students. Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Health Sciences. ↩︎
- Elizabeth A Claydon, Jenna M Kahwash, Christa L Lilly, Yahya Alamir, Keith J Zullig. Subjective Sleep Quality, Caffeine, and Dieting Behaviors Among University-Attending Young Adults ↩︎
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
Here’s what I have so far for the Rebuttal Rewrite. I’m still work on Paragraphs 3-5 and adding the sources for them.
It’s good progress, LadyBug, and I’m glad to see it. I’m pretty sure you’re aware that the “lead-ins” to your blockquotes don’t exactly flow naturally. You’ve also neglected so far to identify BEFORE your provide the quotation, in natural language, who you’re quoting.
I’m going to “fix” one for you so I’m sure you have the instruction you need. (But you can always refer back to
and
for review. My “fix” will follow in the next Reply.
Heavy caffeine consumption diminishes academic performance, according to the Haq and Walsh study conducted at Bethel University. Because of the “high demands ans stresses of college, and graduate school,” they say,
Professor Hodges, can you help with what I have in Bold for my rebuttal rewrite? Cause I have a quote that I chose that would be helpful but I don’t know how to word what I have in Bold for it to make sense to what I’m implying on caffeine having an impact on sleep and college students.
OK, Ladybug, I see what you’re up to here. It’s messy the way you’ve laid out the paragraph because you’re previewing the quote by saying caffeine has “impacted sleep quality” (that’s the FIRST time you say it); then the authors of the study say caffeine consumption is a risk factor for “poor sleep quality” (that’s the SECOND time for the same claim); then you want to summarize what they said in your afterword that caffeine is a risk factor that is likely to cause “poor sleep quality” (that’s the THIRD time you make the claim.)
So, my first advice would be to NOT repeat the same claim three times.
But the bigger problem is that the Library of Medicine study, according to the quote DOES NOT blame caffeine conclusively for sleep disturbance. That is clear when they say “have generally been inconclusive.” You cut off the beginning of the quote, so it’s hard to say for sure, but the part we can read indicates they know undergraduates have “poor sleep quality,” but they don’t know whether to blame coffee, or other sources of caffeine, or diet, or exercising to lose weight for the problem.
I can help you smooth out the citation problem, but I think the result will be a bit of a fallacy.
Here’s what you could say:
P4) The National Library of Medicine has identified “total daily caffeine consumption” from all sources, “as well as dieting and exercising to lose weight” as “risk factors for poor sleep quality among an undergraduate university population” that are detrimental to academic performance and overall health.
That’s it.
That’s the entire set of claims plus the material you can quote from the source all put together into one good sentence.
I hope that’s helpful. I can’t do better than that. 🙂
Thank you, I’ll fix that right now.