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.
Technology in last 50 years or so has experienced a tremendous boom. The availability and ease of use of internet facilities has connected the world and has provided a platform for the people to express their opinions to the global masses. One such platform is online blogs, where people write their thoughts on various topics ranging from politics to entertainment. Most of the modern technology critics support the claim given, I however do not completely agree with the claim as well as the reason presented.
Firstly, before the IT revolution the only source for common people to access information regarding the political happenings in the country were newspapers and as we all know how easily unaware population can be fooled by the falsified information present in the newspapers. Many of the political activists found it difficult to publish their opinions in the paper because of they were aimed at a certain party or institution in power. However, with the help of the internet they no longer need to print their opinions to reach to a wide audience, they can easily use the facilities provide by the online blogs where there are, little to no restrictions on the content of the opinion.
Secondly, many of these blog websites provide the author with a feature to remain anonymous. By exercising this right, inside agents can freely express their discontent and provide information regarding wrongdoings of a major person or party in power. However, on the other hand, some kind of restrictions must be placed on these online blogs as by spreading fallacious information without any strong basis or evidence can be disastrous for the reputation of the concerned entity or group. The websites must ask for concrete evidence for the claims made by the author before publishing his/her opinion online.
Finally, I would like to conclude by stating that online blogosphere has not weakened the quality of political discourse rather strengthened it, however, there should be some verification of the content published online, it should be truthful and supported by proper proofs.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 17, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'IT'?
Suggestion: the; IT
...e reason presented. Firstly, before the IT revolution the only source for common p...
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Line 3, column 366, Rule ID: BECAUSE_OF_I[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'because they' instead.
Suggestion: because they
... to publish their opinions in the paper because of they were aimed at a certain party or instit...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, well, kind of, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.3162921348 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1754.0 2235.4752809 78% => OK
No of words: 340.0 442.535393258 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15882352941 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82364583093 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 215.323595506 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.555882352941 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 558.0 704.065955056 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 20.2370786517 59% => 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: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 67.1286079105 60.3974514979 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.166666667 118.986275619 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.3333333333 23.4991977007 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0833333333 5.21951772744 193% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.204038048253 0.243740707755 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0679230495475 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0474409401665 0.0758088955206 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122948034575 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0271635688751 0.0667264976115 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 14.1392134831 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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