Claim: The emergence of the online "blogosphere" has significantly weakened the quality of political discourse in the United States.
Reason: When anyone can publish political opinions easily, standards for covering news and political topics will inevitably decline.
Write a response in which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
The claim mentioned above states that the emeregence of online blogosphere that is the ability for different individuals to write blogs and express their opinions on various issues or topics has weakened the quality of political discourse in united states. There are several reasons which can be stated to prove that the claim is not correct in certain situations.
Firstly, Blogging helps people to put forward their opinions on various topics of general interests. There can be different view points or take of every individual about an issue that is happening. So, this blogosphere allows people to show the world about what they think of the situation and how can it be handled according to their idea or suggestions.
Secondly, the reason stated to support the claim tells that if people are allowed to publish political opinion, then the standards for covering news and political topics will inevitably decline. Despite the fact that this publishing of opinion in the form of blogging can also help to find out some facts about the issue that would otherwise have remained concealed is not considered here. For Instance, if a crime happens in a locality and the police comes for the investigation in the crime scene it may be possible that any witness of the crime would not open his or her mouth in public. But if the person post details about the crime in blogs by keeping himself anonymous and providing evidence to the police about the event. This could help police to catch the culprit and punish him. This is the other side of the blogosphere that can be of great help for nation.
Thirdly, these blogging platform can help the citizens to provide transparency about the political events that is happening around the country. People attending these events or covering these events can post details about the event in the form of the blogs and let everyone know about what is happening and in this way transparency can be increased in the political process.People can also express their opinions about the different events and this can also inturn help the officials to change or make decisions based on the public's view on the particular issue. This is actually working in a bidirectional manner as it is helping the citizens on the one side to know facts about the political events and on the other side it is helping the political officials to take decisions that is in the best interest for the people who elected them.
In the conclusion, the only point that I would like to put forward is that the claim made is flawed and it is providing a view that is not correct and the reason which has been put forward to support the claim is also lacking evidences. So, this claim is open for debate and there are many more evidences that can be put forward to show that the claim is flawed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: People
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Message: Consider replacing "in a bidirectional manner" with adverb for "bidirectional"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...ticular issue. This is actually working in a bidirectional manner as it is helping the citizens on the on...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2332.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 487.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78850102669 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69766713281 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50169589439 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 215.323595506 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.420944558522 0.4932671777 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 733.5 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 23.0359550562 130% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 88.5414583331 60.3974514979 147% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.75 118.986275619 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.4375 23.4991977007 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.375 5.21951772744 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252682729649 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.095254146119 0.0831039109588 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104180173433 0.0758088955206 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156146551119 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0886132674548 0.0667264976115 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.1392134831 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.2143820225 125% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.