Coffee Persuasive Essay

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How to survive college: Drink coffee, lots of it! College is a lot of work so having to stay up all night to do homework or cramming for tests is almost a requirement. Being able to stay up all night or going to class on 2 hours of sleep requires a lot of energy, energy that is found in the caffeine of coffee. Coffee has the immediate effect of boosting unnatural energy into the body making you feel less tired, allowing you to more productive. But is coffee really a good solution or just another factor making a problem bigger?
My concern is to what extent does coffee become the problem as opposed to the solution for college students? The overconsumption of caffeine can be extremely dangerous and very addictive. The energy that caffeine provides
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A large list of articles, videos and research appeared on my screen. After reading several articles that contained the same information I decided to watch videos made my random people where they spoke about their personal experience with coffee. I needed more credible resources so I decided to access Cline Library’s database to do some research there. All the articles in the world can be read, every video can be watched but in the end, it is up to you whether to believe the information. It is so easy to manipulate information to read what you want it to say. With social media allowing access to anyone with an opinion, to publish anything, it can be very hard to find information that is credible and not biased. The research that was done through google was very contradictory. There was many articles that supported one idea, coffee is bad for you. Then after scrolling down, there were articles that read “Coffee and Good Health”. Not all sources were unreputable though, I did manage to find some articles that helped my

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