Topic Proposal for Assignment 3

Mrinalini Manektala

Writing and Reading

Hem Paudel

5 April 2016

Assignment 3 Topic Proposal

My topic for this assignment is how sleep affects academic performance. This is an important topic to research because students of all ages, but especially college students, have the daily struggle of not getting enough sleep, and sleep is important part of being healthy. Since this is something that is affecting students’ health, it’s important to research and see if it affects their academic performance since education is an important part of life also. Two research questions I have come up with for this topic are: Does the lack of sleep negatively affect academic performance? And: How can sleep improve academic performance? I am planning on conducting a research on college students on how sleep affects academic performance. I am planning on making a survey to hand out to around 30 college students asking questions like how many hours of sleep they get per night, their GPA, their daytime productiveness, etc. I will take the results from the surveys to make a conclusion on how sleep affects academic performance.