Mass media and the internet have caused people’s attention spans to get shorter. However, the overall effect has been positive: while people are less able to focus on one thing, they more than make up for it with an enhanced ability to sort through lar

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Mass media and the internet have caused people’s attention spans to get shorter. However, the overall effect has been positive: while people are less able to focus on one thing, they more than make up for it with an enhanced ability to sort through large quantities of information and find what’s important.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

With the advent of mass media and Internet, there has been a huge increase in the amount of information accessible to a particular person. From news articles about the government's new budget policy, to a recipe involving mushrooms, the internet has all kinds of information available. But, with increase in information, the attention spans of people has become shorter, i.e., it is now difficult to focus on any one specific thing properly, and thus it doesn't produce a positive effect on humans.

In today's world, when people are browsing through the internet, or receiving information through ...

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 409, Rule ID: ANY_BODY[1]
Message: Did you mean 'anyone'?
Suggestion: anyone
..., i.e., it is now difficult to focus on any one specific thing properly, and thus it do...
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Line 1, column 454, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ne specific thing properly, and thus it doesnt produce a positive effect on humans. ...
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Line 3, column 756, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...he information is verified effectively. Further, when people 'skim' th...
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Line 5, column 656, Rule ID: GIVE_ADVISE[4]
Message: Did you mean 'advise' (a verb)?
Suggestion: advise
...ysis of the current stock market, might advice the COO to make an investment which may...
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Line 9, column 178, Rule ID: TRY_AND[1]
Message: "Try and" is common in colloquial speech, but "'try to'" is recommended for writing.
Suggestion: try to
...ads of information can force him/her to try and find new ways to process the informatio...
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Line 9, column 452, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...e information that he/she reads, and it doesnt impact their reading habits concerned w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, so, then, thus, for example

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2553.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 494.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16801619433 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71445763274 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90763596408 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528340080972 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 792.9 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Interrogative: 3.0 0.740449438202 405% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 13.0 1.77640449438 732% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.8493936915 60.3974514979 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.65 118.986275619 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.65 5.21951772744 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223309444219 0.243740707755 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0613614601132 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0549161922736 0.0758088955206 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126820818816 0.150359130593 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0533646197376 0.0667264976115 80% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 100.480337079 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 93.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 6
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