Why are There so Many Problems with Writing Essays?

Everyone faces some writing issues in the course of their life, be it time pressure, lack of inspiration or one’s poor grammar and spelling skills. However, these minor challenges are dwarfed by the problems students have with writing. First of all, because of the sheer volume of writing they have to do in their four years of college.

Then, of course, because so much of their academic and future success depends directly on their writing prowess. Even if you have excellent memory and vast knowledge of the subject, your academic record will suffer if you fail to overcome challenges in writing an essay that they want you to submit for the final evaluation.

In order to write efficiently, one needs to know what one is up against. Let’s look at some of the most common issues.

The most common writing difficulties students encounter:

• Writer’s block

  An overwhelming feeling of impossibility to write due to some inner or outer reasons (depression, personal problems, illnesses, external distractions) is called Writer’s Block. It may severely cripple one’s ability to write for shorter or longer periods of time.

  In order to find more about it, study our Writer’s block article.

• Plagiarism

  Plagiarism may be called a real scourge of the world of modern academic writing. In the ages past, the copy/pasted content was, on the one hand, harder to come by and, on the other hand, more difficult to distinguish. The age of the Internet development made it widely available and produced the whole new discipline of discerning plagiarized materials.

  More about it can be found in the Plagiarism article of our website.

• Lack of time

  Another situation that may harm one’s ability to produce creative writing is lack of time. It doesn’t matter what leads to it: uncontrollable circumstances, personal problems, other occupations, hard drive crash, poor time management or anything else. The result is that you don’t have enough time to complete your assignment.

  The Lack of time section elaborates on this problem and suggests some methods of making its influence less overwhelming.

• Lack of talent

  Sometimes students feel that their abilities are just not enough to perform this or that academic assignment. It may be true or just a result of lack of self-confidence, but all the same it interferes with the process of writing and may paralyze corresponding abilities even if they exist.

  If you want to get to know more about this problem and how to deal with it, examine our Lack of talent article.

• Lack of skills

  Lack of skills is, of course, one of the most common complaints students have when they encounter a particularly difficult assignment. It may be an outcome of neglecting one’s studies for a considerable period of time, poor education or something else. If you want to get rid of this problem, there is, unfortunately, hardly any other way of doing it in addition to practicing as often as possible.

  In more detail you can read about it in the Lack of skills article.

• Lack of motivation

  Needless to say, there are situations when a student doesn’t feel him- or herself motivated enough to go on working, however important the assignment may actually be. It is a natural and wide-spread state that may be the result of many outside and inside reasons.

  If you want to get additional information on how to deal with this problem, you are free to study our Lack of motivation article.

As you may see, even a short list of problems commonly encountered by students, who try to write essays, looks quite imposing. Learn about them and the ways of dealing with them and face your enemy prepared!