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.
It is true that mass media and internet have resulted in more faster circulation of world information and has made people more aware about the different aspects of the current affairs, but it might be a stretch to say that the overall effect has been positive. The advancements in these fields have come at the cost of people's attention span and focus ability. It can be argued that it enables people the ability to sort through large quantities of information and find what's important but the consequences of a shorter attention span and ubiquitous information are much more far-reaching.
While it might be considered an advantage that information is much more widely available, but it also makes people more casual towards their work. People no longer want to go in detail to see the reasoning behind why something is happening the way it is happening. For example, if a student gets stuck at some academic problem, he no longer wants to go in detail of the formulation and proof of the concept he is studying. Rather he will just look up a work around in internet. This might solve the problem in the short term but in the long term, the student will never be able to develop a strong foundation for the subject.
A shorter attention span can result in far greater problems. Because of this, people are no longer able to dedicate an ample amount of focus on anything specific. This results in a society that is jack of all trades, but master of none. It makes people less decisive and less aware of their abilities. People are afraid to take risks as they do not want to commit to a discipline because they are no longer specialists in a particular fields.
It can be argued that ability to focus on important things out of a greater amount of information can help people to be more decisive and focus on the important things in life, but what good is such a focus if it cannot last? A shorter attention span means people are not able to remain focussed for a long time and their thoughts tend to vacillate among different ideas. They tend to not develop deliberate over concepts or draw deep and meaningful insights, but rather are happy to observe things from breadth and not depth.
To conclude, I would like to underscore the importance of being decisive in life. A decisive person is able to avoid the trap of procrastination and able to spend much of his time doing the real work. This provides him the ability to become more self-aware and in turn, better in their respective fields.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 58, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'faster' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: faster
...ass media and internet have resulted in more faster circulation of world information and ha...
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Line 1, column 471, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: what's
...arge quantities of information and find whats important but the consequences of a sho...
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Line 3, column 424, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Rather,
...nd proof of the concept he is studying. Rather he will just look up a work around in i...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, so, while, for example, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2064.0 2235.4752809 92% => OK
No of words: 443.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.65914221219 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58776254615 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60146041062 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48532731377 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 658.8 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.7681292506 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.631578947 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3157894737 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.89473684211 5.21951772744 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => 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: 0.344108998655 0.243740707755 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0942231618428 0.0831039109588 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0638233549995 0.0758088955206 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177739454999 0.150359130593 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.083847713609 0.0667264976115 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.04 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 100.480337079 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 11.8971910112 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 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.