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.
In our ever increasing globalized world, mass media and the internet have played a paramount role as a catalyst, for the betterment of human mankind. The given prompt asserts that they, mass media and internet, has had an overall positive impact on people. In my opinion, I strongly agree with the prompt and argue that the advent of mass media and the internet has invigorated human capabilities for these reasons.
First of all, they have provided us access to tons of information which would not have been possible previously. It invariably enhances one's ability to discern a situation correctly, leading to well informed decisions. For instance, an e-commerce company analyzes tons of data regarding customers to discern buying patterns. It enables them to make smart business decisions like marketing and launching new products. This illustrates how the internet and mass media plays a vital role in decision making.
Furthermore, a lot depends upon an individual such as how he/she construes the mass media and the internet. We must take cognizance of the fact that each individual is different and that might lead to disparate and varied impact of the same thing. For instance, a kid learns about the political scenarios in his nation through mass media and the internet. This makes him aware of the society and helps in building a perception. It is vital to have opinions of own rather than espousing other's opinion. This example illustrates how we cannot generalize a phenomenon which is higly subjective.
Finally, the author points out that people's attention span get shorter due to mass media and the internet. It is true that we must not be overdependent on these tools that might hamper our focus. But, to assert that focus decreases is higly subjective and ambigious. For instance, a person might be able to multi-task and perhaps pay more attention to vital tasks, leaving trivial tasks to be handled by these mediums. Research has consistently demonstrated that when person focuses on important tasks rather that mundanew tasks, which are tractable, has more chance to succeed in the task. Scientist can focus more on his research rather than some trivial calculations, easily managed by calculator. Thus, mass media and the internet has enabled us to multi
Of course, some might argue that mass media and the internet has had a negative impact citing the recent rise in cyber crimes and widespread use of media for political propagandas. However, such impact is limited to only a small fraction of scenarios. We must look at it holistically and in most of the scenarios, the above stand might not hold water. Therefore, I can affirm that mass media and the internet has had an overall positive impact on people.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, look, regarding, so, therefore, thus, well, for instance, of course, such as, first of all, in my opinion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 58.6224719101 89% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2292.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 453.0 442.535393258 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05960264901 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61343653406 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71567325329 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525386313466 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 714.6 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.3201970245 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.5 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.875 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.83333333333 5.21951772744 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.311610187418 0.243740707755 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0781689958062 0.0831039109588 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0644386106822 0.0758088955206 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157857929214 0.150359130593 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0339731307571 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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