The Causes Of Procrastination In High School

If it says anything, I only write weekly in the summer and daily during the school year. School - absolutely necessary - is the only reason I do so. Though I hate to say it, writing for pleasure should be a fun activity because of no rules or how abstract you can be. Unfortunately, I only write for school, which increases my writing fairly quickly, resulting in me having quite a workload. For example, last summer I was assigned The Life of Pi and Into the Wild. I looked at my summer reading the 20th, and it was due the 28th. I had to rush my assignments in only three days. The workload was awful to be hit with all at once, because I had to work at a decent time. From this moment on, I learned procrastination is

In most of the letters that I read some said the advice "don't procrastinate" and, that is one of the things that I use to do. I use to procrastinate most of my days with out even realizing it especially on homework. Every time that I had to do homework, I would always find an excuse for example "I'm hungry let me eat first", "I

Procrastination, as well as problems with self-control, can be related to poor time management. Time management is important to a writer. Without time management, a paper will be lacking substance. According to Dunn (2011), the organization is essential for writing projects and planning is important to allotting time to complete a project. Having the time to look and reflect on the material and writing provides proper time management. Not giving enough time for the project can lead to increased levels of stress that causes you to be unfocused. There are also times when the writer just loses interest on the material. Breaking time up into periods for research, reading, assimilation of ideas, writing, editing, re-writing, formatting will give the you not only the overall deadline but also smaller due dates in between so that progress can be measured and adjustments made to the schedule. Setting deadlines means managing time and time management is another vital aspect of academic success. A person must be able to balance the stress of everyday life. Decreased stress and more confidence are also a result of managing time efficiently. Increased confidence leads to better performance, better research, better understanding of your field of research and ultimately better

Attention Getter: A famous author by the name of Wayne Dyer once said, “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is incredibly heavy.”(1) In todays society it seems as if procrastination has become a normal and acceptable thing to do. It is often joked about amongst schoolmates and co-workers around the world. Nothing seems to get done until it absolutely needs to get done, then everyone runs around getting things done quickly and often times inaccurately. The trouble with this mentality however is that some things will never get done because something will come up tomorrow or the next day and what you are putting off now gets pushed even further back. Today I will persuade you to stop this habit from continuing. I will be explaining the problems we face when dealing with procrastination as well as how to deal with it and actions you can take to prevent it in the future.

Procrastination is a tendency to postpone, put off, delay, reschedule, take a rain check on, put on ice, hold off, or to defer what is necessary to reach a particular goal.(Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition. Philip Lief Group 2009.) While attending College some students find it hard to juggle work, family, and friends. Leading most students down a dangerous path to procrastination; that negative impact affect students from their physical health, mental health, and social health.

In the past, I have been confident enough to wait until the night before to finish a paper. More times than not, I get perfect scores or a few points deducted. Depending on the genre of writing, I do procrastinate, which is not a very smart thing to admit in an English class paper, but nonetheless, I do it. My procrastination has reduced over time, simply because I put more effort into my papers and even found a way of writing that works for me. Since I have been given the opportunity to follow whatever steps, in whatever order works for me, I have become a more successful writer.

Procrastination is the act or habit of putting tasks on hold. It is the unnecessary postponement of starting or finishing an undertaking, which eventually leads to distress (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984). The intentional delay of due tasks is very common among students and lately, it has become prevalent in college settings (Rabin, Fogel & Nutter-Upham, 2011).

Procrastinating: we all do it, some of us more than others. Either way, it’s something we all complain about doing, but still always do, kind of like our schoolwork! As I sit here, 9 p.m on a Wednesday night, procrastinating this assignment, despite needing to be up at 4 a.m for my swim practice, I just simply have no idea what to do. I sat here for about 2 hours beforehand having no idea what to write this on. I spent the first 30 minutes watching youtube videos in my recommended, 15 minutes googling ideas for this topic, another 15 minutes complaining on my phone about this assignment, gave myself an hour break because I thought I deserved it, and spent the last 30 minutes yelling at myself to do this assignment. I was about to give up on doing some creative topic and do something generic like texting and driving, when I realized the answers literally right in front of me! Well no -not the blank screen- but what my mind was doing! Procrastinating! I don’t think I have ever been so excited to admit that procrastinating was the solution to my problem. So there I am, having my epiphany, realizing that this idea had potential. So being the typical high school student that I am, I took another break. It’s now 9:30, and I have to be up at 4 a.m, and my reasoning for not completing this assignment is that I keep telling myself “5 more minutes”, fully aware that if I completed this assignment

“I’ll stop procrastinating…Tomorrow.” This is a mindset that is possessed by a majority of students today. Although putting off writing that English paper until the night before it is due may not seem like a big deal, it has many harmful effects. In fact, what better topic is there for that English paper? Very few are spared from the epidemic known as procrastination. Even less overcome this issue. In order to successfully defeat procrastination, we must first understand it.

Students can avoid procrastination by following the S.M.A.R.T. goal guidelines. All of your goals should be specific (s), measurable (m), achievable (a), realistic (r), and time-sensitive (t). A specific goal is clear, focused, concise, and well-defined (“Ensure Your Success”). Instead of a general goal like “I want to get my degree,” turn that into something more specific like “I am going to get my Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from George Mason University” (“Ensure Your Success”). To make goals measurable, establish timelines and dates so you can measure your progress and stay on track to meet targets. Goals need to be achievable. Evaluate your own work ethic, see what you’re willing to do, and shape your goal around that so you know it is something you’re capable of doing. A goal needs to be realistic, something that you are

Because I am a senior in high school with a heavy work load and limited time, I struggle with procrastinating. The purpose of my research is to see if other people have the same problems I do getting my work done. I asked questions that relate to myself including extra-curricular actives and home lives. I wanted to see if my home life and extra-curricular activities caused my procrastination as well as my fellow class mates. I wondered if everyone had the same reasons or if everyone had their own unique cause of procrastination.

The article talks about the delay in both undergraduate and graduate student’s delays in taking statistics courses until their final semester of school is not a viable option if they want to truly get the best from the program. To be able to understand the worth of any master’s degree one must understand the probability, the mean, the average, the ratio, and the standard deviation of basic concepts to fully understand from a macro level the importance statistics plays on both domestic and global enterprises. The article delves deep into why a majority of students (sample size of 135 graduate students) wait until the last semester to take statistics just to fulfill a graduation requirement. According to the author, academic procrastination, which is experienced by approximately 95% of college students, is defined as the purposive and needless delay in the beginning or completing tasks. The overall purpose of the article is to understand where that fear lies in (amongst which groups), and the necessary steps or processes that must be in place to ensure students are not weary of taking a statistics course and pushing it off till the last semester. As stated in the original article, “the first purpose was to examine the prevalence of academic procrastination among graduate students. The second purpose was to investigate the relationship between academic procrastination and statistics anxiety.”

(Technique 2: style/voice) My first essay on procrastination was a narrative research essay. It comprised of research on a topic that was supported with my own experiences. This essay, in particular, I believe was very strong due to its style and voice. I tend to incorporate humor and modesty in my writing so as to better appeal to my audience. I could have all the textual and factual evidence in the world, but it will always fall short in comparison to meaningful experiences. This type of writing cannot be done without the appropriate use of style and

There are all always two types of students in this small world, first, the students that come ready to class with a three to five-page essay all proofread, nice and stapled with three transition sentences highlighted turned. Second, there are those students who come to class with not even half of a paper written out, unstapled, not a single transitional sentence highlighted and may have plenty of errors due to not proofreading the essay. Those second group of students are procrastinators, which are people who delay an assignment to do the task right before the deadline. Now, why do most of all 99.99% of school boys and girls procrastinate? Well, most people might have problems with lack of focus, or the person might be lazy and decide to

The point of having the tardy policy is to make sure students get to school on time and don’t miss any important time of class, but there are certain incidents that happen to people that actually weren’t there fault. The tardy policy actually punishes those people. These are some of the reasons that the tardy policy should not be taken out but to be modified. It takes time off of class and free time after school, it temps students to come to school at all, and how unfair the punishment system is towards students.