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PERSUASIVE ESSAY SUMMARY
1. About how bad procrastination or mañana habit is and why you should stop it

2. "Procrastination is the thief of time." Quotation is the hook type.

3. This proverb tells you that procrastination is a time-waster when you unnecessarily postponed
your decisions on action, you procrastinate. Filipino call it mañana habit - one of your worst habit
as a people.

4. Lick this habit because its adverse effects can pull you down

5. First, when you procrastinate, your performance suffers. A 1997 study by Dianne Tice and Roy
Baumeister revealed the destructive nature of procrastination on academic performance. They
found that procrastinating students earned lower grades and reported higher cumulative stress
and illness.
Second, you risk your health when you procrastinate. The Mayo Clinic says unchecked stress can
contribute to many health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, and
diabetes. What's more, Dr. Amit Sood, a professor of medicine, says stress can make you look
ugly because it makes your eyes baggy, your body puffy, and your look sickly.
Third, procrastination can damage your reputation and make you unpopular with your friends.
Because you do not prepare early for an event, you always show up late. You may not know it,
but your friends may have started to call you "Pagong" behind your back. Procrastination can
drive your friends away and make you cry at night.
Fourth, procrastination can reduce your well-being. 94% of people indicated that procrastination
harmed their happiness in one survey, and 18% suggested that this effect was highly negative.
Similarly, when researchers asked students how they felt after procrastinating, they categorized
over 80% of their responses as unfavorable.
Lastly, you may miss opportunities when you procrastinate. To illustrate, the late Sean Connery
missed out on $400 million by not taking the role of Gandolf in Lord of the Rings. The producers
promised him 15% of the worldwide box office receipts if he took the role, but he hesitated.
6.
a. Rhetorical Question
b. Being empathetic
c. Appeal to Authority
d. Appeal to Emotion
e. Hyperbole/Exaggeration
f. Plain folks
g. Appeal to Reason
h. Storytelling
i. Storytelling
j. Appeal to Reason
k. Appeal to Reason

7. The adverse effects of your mañana habit can hold you back - impede you from reaching your
goals.

8. It is one habit that you have to beat to succeed in life. To lick this habit, any essential thing that
you have to do, do it now.