Noraini Binti Mohamed Rahim (240994)

Topic: Video Game

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that video game can be good for them.
Central idea: Video game can harness human cognitive capabilities, increase attention to details
and improvement in eyesight
Method of organization: Problem, solution method
Introduction
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Video games provide a fun escape from reality, though theyre often portrayed as
violent, lazy and waste of time by some.
The debate has raged on for years. So are there any positive effects? Can video
games actually make you smarter?
Before we get ahead of ourselves, it is important to note that too much of anything is
bad, even broccoli.
Seriously, extremely high doses broccoli can actually be toxic and there are the
existences of water toxicity.
If you binge and do nothing but play video games, the risk probably outweigh any
benefits.
Trust me that video games are not bad for you, but it actually making your life better.
So I want to persuade you to play video game as it can be good for you as a student.
Body

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Video game can boost students brain power.

A. Video games can harness human cognitive capabilities
1. According to scientists from Queen Mary University of London and
University College London (UCL), certain types of video games can help to
train the brain to become more agile and improve strategic thinking,
2. Dr. Brian Glass from Queen Mary University of London stated that, action
video games such as Halo can speed up decision making, while the real time
strategy games can promote human ability to think.
3. Many studies have actually shown increases in cognitive function after
playing video games.
4. One study in particular had participants play super Mario 64 for 30 minutes a
day over 2months.
B. Action games can also increase attention to details in individuals
1. Video games can also be incredibly educational
2. Many games that are used as effective teaching tools for both young and old.
They may even help kids who suffer from dyslexia read more effectively.

3. In a small study, dyslexic children who played regular video games ended up
reading faster and more accurately.
4. Once again, relating to improved attention skills.
C. Improvement in eyesight
1. Not only can see smaller details more clearly, like tiny writing but they have
an easiest time differentiating levels of grey matter.
2. Very practiced action gamers were 58% better at perceiving fine differences in
contrast, which is important as this is one of the first things to diminish with
age.
3. Even in the elderly, improved memory and focus is seen. More importantly,
specially designed brain teasing video games have been shown to slow the
aging process of the brain by up to seven years.
4. This is because they are cognitively complex and require mental energy.
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How video game can be good for you?

A. Have to play video games accordance to some ways so that the video games
are helping you to improve.
1. If you play it over and over the time limitation, it will lead you to the worse
addiction
2. Divide your time to play and study wisely which is you cannot play games
exceeded the time to study.
3. Some forms of video games that can help you to improve your IQ level and
critical thinking.
4. With the right design and mechanics, video games can facilitate diverse level
of cognitive thinking and problem solving.
5. Positive result of playing video games is depends on the way the students
choose to play it.
B. Enjoy your down time and relax with your games in moderation.
1. Technology continues to transform medicine, surgeries are being completed
with the insertion of cameras and remote controlled tools and these surgeries
have very clear parallel to video games with a screen and controlling device.
2. Not surprisingly, young with previous exposure to video games show fewer
errors and faster completion than those without.
3. Of course all of these skills are only useful if you use them, which you cant if
all you do is play video games.
4. So enjoy your down time and relax with your games in moderation, but get
out there and keep your life diverse as well, because thats how youll win at
the game of life.

Conclusion

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Today I have explained to you that video game can be good for us.
When we ask Are games good for us? we should take more seriously the idea
that games help us feel better.
Reducing the time we spend experiencing negative emotions and increasing the
time we spend experiencing positive emotions is a fundamental good.
Video game is not as violent, lazy and waste of time like people thought because
there are many advantages from playing video game. So, lets start to play video
game!

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