Title
Stress
General purpose
To inform
Specific purpose
To inform audience about stress.
Central idea
There are three matters which are causes of stress, effect by
stress and how to manage stress
Organizational pattern
Topical
INTRODUCTION
A. Open with impact/
Attention gather
Stress is poison. The most disastrous effects of stress is
committing suicide and this are often occur among students.
“ Between 600 and 800 of 15 to 24 years old students
killed themselves each year - equivalent to the population
of a small secondary school.“ ( John Harkin, 2008, page 1)
i. Tie to the audience/
Reason to listen
Stress can be dangerous in various especially when it comes to
lifestyle of the students themselves
ii. Credibility statement/
material
According to Lipsett (2008), nearly three-quarters (73%) of the
804 teachers and lecturers believe, children nowadays having
more pressure than chilren 10 years ago. They agress that tests,
exams, and family break-up causing the most distress to
students.
iii. Preview of main points/
central idea
Today I’m going to explain what causes for the problem, what
can be effect by stress and how to manage stress
Transition to body of speech:
I will start with the causes of the stress
Main point 1
Causes of stress among students that may affect them such
as interpersonal and academic.
Supporting details 1
The main cause of stress among student is interpersonal
causes. Interpersonal causes which included the factor like
relationships with family and friend
Elaboration 1
Supporting details 2
Conclusion
Stress may take apart when students do not have a good
relationship between family and friends, they may be alone
and do not have anyone to share everything with. Other than
that, relations with faculty members also apart of
interpersonal causes.
Other cause of stress among student is actually because of
the academic itself. Elizabeth (2008) jotted that, workload of
college, difficult tests and other academic obstacles, also
may lead to stress. Besides that, challenging classes and
scheduling issues to coordinate where by, they got a very
pack and long class will make them stress. Because, as
human, we need some gap, time to let our mind rest for a
while, rather than, doing everything in a non stop period.
Causes of stress is just around us, so avoid it as best as we
can by find a suitable way to solve every problems that
crossed by.
Main point 2
There are a lot of effects brought by stress in student life. The
most disastrous effects of stress are the effects on emotional
health and academic performance.
Supporting details 1
Major negative effect of stress is on emotional health
Emotional health problem is more dangerous than physical
health problem because it can lead to most disastrous effects of
all that is committing suicide. According to Lerner (2008),
Emotional or Mental health is an expression of our emotions
and signifies a failure adaptation to the range of demands in
life. The stressful life events can lead to all the failure just by
conquering our mind. So it is very important to maintain our
mental and emotional health because once our emotional health
was disturbed it can lead to various of diseases such as
depression, anxiety, emotional eating, anger and so on.
The second disastrous effect of stress to an individual
especially students is on academic performance. Actually this
effect affected students beyond their thinking.
Supporting details 2
Elaboration 1
Once they are in stress they have difficulty to concentrate on
their study and finally their result will ruin because they cannot
do well in their exams. So that is how their academic
performance shows such negative improvement from day to
day because they cannot manage their stress well.
Transition to main point 3 Effect from stress can be managed if students know the right step and
did follow it.
Main point 3
Stress must be managing properly so that it will not be more
dangerous to students. The good news is that students can learn
how to manage stress. Stress management is the ability to
maintain control when situations, people, and events make
extra demands
Supporting details 1
You may feel like the stress in your life is out of your control,
but you can always control the way you respond. Kind of way
to manage stress is doing exercise. Rhodes (2006) stated that
one of the effective ways to manage stress is by doing exercise.
Get regular physical activity. Physical activity plays a key role
in both reducing and preventing the effects of stress.
Elaboration 1
Similarly to Stoppler (2009) state that exercise also is a very
effective way to dealing with stress. It will give your body the
opportunity to burn off excess adrenalin produced by the fight
to flight response to stress
Supporting details 2
Other than that, stress can be manage by make time for fun and
relaxation.
Example 1
Transition to conclusion
The example to make time relaxation is take regular vacations
or even long weekends or mental-health days at intervals that
you have learned are right for you. By do aroma therapy or
listening music also can make more relax. Your senses are a
powerful tool and can be used to invoke relaxation and stress
reduction.
Before you take action to manage stress you must understand
what is the stress and the causes of stress that you have. As you
begin to understand more about how stress affects you, you
will develop your own ideas to help relieve tension.
conclusion
Summary of main points
Stress can be dangerous to student’s lifestyle. They should
find the causes of stress which they going through, know the
bad effect that they may face and take actions to manage it
Close with impact, call for
action
By taking stress in positive way it will give good effects
in return. However if we taking stress in negative way
absolutely all we got are the bad effects. Stop stressing
and start living.