Sunday, June 25, 2006

Why Most Students Hate Writing College Papers?

Not all students possess the skill of writing impressive college assignments and papers. However this area of curriculum is important for good grades and the career development of any student. No doubt the skill of creating an effective piece of writing is god gifted but it also requires lots of practice, efforts and attention to the subject. As someone stated that writing can lead to even more writing, therefore the more you practice the more effectively you will start writing. It has been noticed that most of the student avoid writing term papers and assignment and there are a handful of solid reasons for their apprehensions.


Major reasons for hating writing papers

Writing college papers is something that every student should try to accomplish on time but it has been observed widely that most of the students despise the idea of writing an assignment due to a lot of reasons. All students may not be interested in writing some college papers while some students dislike writing all papers for their own reasons.

The repugnance to writing is normal to many because of a few major reasons like the lack of skill and more importantly time or being short on deadlines. Creative writing is not an easy field and one may have to develop sufficient skills in order to accomplish a task f writing assigned to him /her. A large number of students are reluctant to write an essay or assignment because of their lacking in the capacity of spellings, composition or grammar. Assembling a nicely written piece of assignment is also a big deal. Some student fail to present a nicely compiled assignment no doubt how hard he/she worked to put the bright ideas, the original thoughts and the comprehensible debate in the document, it would fail to leave any impression on the teacher’s mind and thus will produce yet another student who hates writing college papers.

Formatting a paper properly is another important aspect of a successful assignment. A wrongly formatted assignment can drastically degrade the value of a paper and diminishes the credibility of the student to. Some students fail to comply with the requirements of the chosen citation style while preparing an assignment. This is another reason that the students feel he might not be able to write a properly formatted essay to satisfy the teacher and may start to underestimate his/her writing skills.


The burden of pending work and more than one assignment deadline approaching makes a student nervous, anxious and reluctant to commence writing. Some students are deficient in the ability of writing a simple essay since high school days but the reason behind this may be the be deficient in of interest in the English classes or the failure of the writing instructor to explain and enforce writing in the classes. Many high school classes fall short in elucidating the basics of writing thus making more students flunk in the exam and hate the writing part of the curriculum. Many tutors do not methodically enlightens the different citation styles of writing term papers and thus the student is not at all clear on how to write it according to the required style, MLA, APA, Harvard or Chicago with proper referencing and formatting. The fear of doing it wrongly leads to the reluctance students feel nowadays when their assignments are due. A few students just hate writing due to the over burden and shortage of time before submission while possessing effective writing skills. They prefer if the syllabus of a term shows how many assignments are to be completed in a specific term and when to submit. It makes it a lot easier for them to write peacefully and within the time limit. A few students feel bored writing on the same topics again and again and this boredom transforms into hatred for writing. It is often noticed that students are not confident enough to start writing on a topic or even to choose a topic independently. This may be because students don’t brain storm before they start to write and do not bother to proof read their work by someone else a colleague or a teacher or even a parent in order to make the necessary amendments or sometimes to add an important point.

A handful of students often feel that writing term papers or college assignments is nothing more than the waste of their precious and valuable time. This logic may have a solid base that can be traced to the behavior of some instructors. They think that no matter how competent they are in the field of writing their paper would go unnoticed as the teacher won’t bother to read or even check it and most importantly they wont be getting any grades and marks on it as the teacher will fail to co- ordinate with the students in order to comment on the work whether positive or negative. In a few instances the students feel that the grades they got on their work are not appropriate or justifying and for this reason they feel they hate writing college essays and papers.


Conclusion
Creative writing is an interesting field and a lot of people enjoy writing articles etc. a trend has been emerging in the students that they are not interested in writing their college papers and assignments. There are many reasons that can make students hate writing their college assignments such as the lack of the interest and ability to write competent and perfect college assignments. A few more valid reasons for hating paper writing are time shortage, multiple projects due together, poor spellings, grammar and English comprehension, lack of interest on the part of the instructor, faulty basics, lack of confidence in academic writing capabilities, failure of the teacher to explain important techniques and proper methodology of creative writing, bad grading and humiliating remarks on work done. The appropriate knowledge of the problems most students face while writing college papers may be the first step towards the correction of the problem and help the students write more accurately and effectively

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