No Mornings Don T Make You More Moral By Maria Konnikova Rhetorical Analysis

Introduction
In “No, Mornings Don’t Make You More Moral”, Maria Konnikova (2015) discusses whether waking up early in the morning affects our health, even yet morals, and finds there is no direct correlation between the two. Maria Konnikova is a well-known Russian-American writer and a columnist for The New Yorker online. She graduated with honors from Harvard University, where she studied psychology, creative writing, and government, and received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University. Konnikova writes with a focus on psychology and science and her first book titled “Mastermind: How to Think like Sherlock Holmes” was a best-seller (Konnikova, n.d). Therefore, she is considered as a credible source and is qualified to write about this topic, as it is within her area of specialties. This article is overall well written and organized, not to mention that it covers a crucial topic and an important issue everyone can relate to. The “early birds” theme has been repeated, discussed and debated on for many years, due to its importance and huge effect in our daily lives. The author was successful in conveying her thoughts and

She begins by mentioning a research that claims rising early contributes to a better behavior. Next, she states that a person’s behavior is controlled by both chronotype and homeostatic sleep drive and not on the time of day. In order to support her arguments, Konnikova introduces a study by Sunita Sah, a scientist and a night owl. Finally, both Sah and the author conclude that rising early does not necessarily result in better behavior. In fact, Konnikova found that a person’s morality depends on his or her own preference, and that we should all embrace our chronotypes. However, due to our own society and environment, early birds may still get the