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.
From TV screen to PC to mobile phone, all of them have become a source of information. The way people get their news has changed significantly in the last decade. Also, thanks to the large amount of media outlet and internet, the amount information we get has become huge. This has in turn, shorten the focus on a particular issue no matter how important that topic is. Although this influx of information is percieved good for its vesatility, the overall effect of such shorter span of attention caused by this deluge of information has resulted in a negative effect on the society.
For example we can take several incidents in Bangladesh. In 2018 there was a mass movement against the frequent people killing in road accidents. The issue stayed as the headline for few several days and then was replaced by another new but less alarming issue of bribery case. Such shorter span actually hindered the built up required for the movemnt to be successful. Again, in recent time raping of children and women has increased alarmingly. Every time such incident occurs, they stay in the news cycle for few days and then got forgotten very quickly. Some mass media might follow up those incidents but that is not enough. Even the government of Bangladesh is sometime accused of using such phenomenon. Whenever a mass movement stats to form, the goverment create another issue so that public interest shift from that movement.
Another pressing issue arised from such avaiability of infortmation from multiple sources is the possibility of manipulation of public opinion. Although all sorts of news media are supposed to stay neutral but most of them have hidden or open bias to particular political party or thought. They may present a incident in a distorted way which can vary from media outlet to outlet. Thus it can crate mass confusion too. During the US election of 2016 we have seen so many example of such mass manipulation and confusion. In this age of media many phony websites are available frequently & sometime it is hard to distinguish them for the mass people.
Although this influx of information and media outlets and internet news source has negative sides, it has contributed in some good ways too. Like there had been poweful algorith that matches news from one's preference and present them only. Thus a person can stay updated to the particular area of choice more efficiently. Also the more availability of choice results in more opportunity to check the factual correctness of a information.
Since the beginning of satellite transmission and internet the way of our news consumptions has changed significantly. There is several pressing disadvantage to it due to its susceptibility to the bias and corruption. But the advantage are also significant enough and cautios steps can strike the balance regarding how to use and stay updated without falling to the traps of manipulation in the vast information sea.
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- TOEFL TPO 43 - Integrated Writing Task 73
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: an
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Message: Consider replacing "in a distorted way" with adverb for "distorted"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
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Suggestion: many examples
...the US election of 2016 we have seen so many example of such mass manipulation and confusion...
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Suggestion: one's
...poweful algorith that matches news from ones preference and present them only. Thus ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, if, may, regarding, so, then, thus, as to, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 12.9106741573 163% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2449.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 489.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0081799591 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70248278971 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78714622687 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513292433538 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 780.3 704.065955056 111% => 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: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.8932150602 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.7037037037 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1111111111 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.77777777778 5.21951772744 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 5.13820224719 272% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.185154866378 0.243740707755 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0448540142425 0.0831039109588 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0348347601831 0.0758088955206 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0941750401614 0.150359130593 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0496950461335 0.0667264976115 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.48 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 100.480337079 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => 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: 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.