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Procrastination

Michael Webb
Hendricks
Research Paper
20 November 2014

Why Do Students Procrastinate?

Procrastination is a disease that plagues many people in society today. Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before the deadline. It is especially common throughout the younger generation when it comes to schoolwork. Students all over the globe procrastinate every single day. I also struggle with procrastination which is the main reason I decided to research the subject to maybe find ways for ...

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five percent, Nine students were males. My next question had to do with their lives outside of school. I asked them if they worked or not and all of them, twenty students, did. One student, five percent, worked one to six hours a week. Three students, fifteen percent, worked seven to twelve hours per week. Fifteen students, seventy five percent, worked thirteen to twenty hours per week. And only one student, five percent, worked more than twenty hours per week. Many students work as well as go to school to support themselves. Some cannot maintain the balance between the two and work entirely too much to maintain a lifestyle not necessary for college students. Because of this some students inadvertently let their grades take a tumble. I know all about this, it was a huge factor of me not living up to my capabilities in my first year of college. For my next question, I asked a more vague question about procrastination. I basically asked them why they procrastinate. I wanted to see ...

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associated with doing assignments is a strong factor influencing students do delay completing their work until it is not possible to delay it anymore.
Another factor influencing students waiting until the last minute to do assignments goes hand in hand with the negative feelings of it. Most of the time students can wait until the last minute to do their assignments and still end up with a fairly decent if not very good grade. This does not make students want to change their horrible habits, but in fact in their minds encourages this outlandish behavior to continue. Also one person I interview stated that the rush they get from waiting until the last minute actually helps them ...

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PAPER DETAILS
Added: 9/15/2015 01:27:25 PM
Submitted By: miklwebb
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1262
Pages: 5

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