The worst scenario that a student can encounter throughout his or her academic career is to lose focus from completing every coursework task due to psychological obstacles. These obstacles are harder to counteract since most of them are self-inflicted, or are otherwise taken for granted based on the mindset of the students.
Either of these has a profound negative effect on the performance of the student, either from losing focus or losing interest in the essay writing task altogether—and this poses a huge risk to the student’s overall academic performance.
A corrective strategy of any sort cannot thus be implemented if the specific source of the concern has not been identified yet. As an additional guide to the students who consistently face the risk of losing focus and interest on the essay writing task, the following aspects have been identified as concrete psychological obstacles students have to avoid:
- Writer’s block. This occurs when the student is not able to continue writing further due to an overwhelming difficulty in content conceptualization and inclusion. The situation can also happen when the student is not able to determine how to reconcile two apparently conflicting points to form a cohesive essay which may inevitably affect the smoothness of the paragraph transitions. This leads to disappointment which may discourage the student from completing the essay writing task.
- Redundancy of thought. This happens when the student just repeats the same thought in different sentences, or within the same paragraph, without adding any more helpful inputs that could expound on the topic. This usually happens when the student did not have enough sufficient research data that could have helped in strengthening a certain thought or idea.
- Lack of synchronicity. This is experienced by students who are forced to work under certain conditions that do not coincide with their learning style, making them less productive and easily prone to distractions and frustrations.
