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.
Mass media and Internet have revolutionized the world. Today every information available to a person is a click away. There are a plethora of options available to a person to choose from. However, are we wrong in saying that while it brings us a lot of choice and options, it has shortened our attention spans? Well, one would not be entirely wrong in saying so.
While it has been a great shift of paradigm to the virtual age, along it brings a lot of options by which we digress. There are so many times when we are looking for a particular solution to a problem online and in the process, we find something totally different, interesting and start reading that. In today's age of data mining where the advertisements posted on the site that we are browsing are channelized by keeping in the mind the search history of the person, the temptation of checking out 'those beautiful high heels' on Amazon.com, is just a click away. Hence, enabling us to lose attention towards what we had intended to do.
The abundance of information also gives us an advantage to choose from various options and select what best suits our need. For example, if you want to learn a chapter on thermodynamics, there are plenty of books and online videos that are available online suited for different kinds of readers and also n number of published papers by various elite professors that are available. A student can just browse through the variety of options and choose what best suits his needs and by which method or a video or book, he is able to understand that topic better. This allows us to run through the various options, and select one and then focus on one particular thing, rather than having to read up everything in detail, which saves up a lot of time.
The information out there can be customized to your needs. There maybe a political incident that has happened and you do not agree with the views of your state minister,you would be able to find a lot of blogs where the bloggers' thoughts, who are writing about that issue is in congruence with your thoughts. So, the internet and mass age gives us an opportunity to pay attention to the data that best suits our views or our needs and skim through the rest of the irrelevant data. This allows us to save a lot of time and energy and once we've found the required data, then we can focus all our energies in understanding that data and using it to the enhance our knowledge.
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| 2019-12-17 | srujanakeerthi | 66 | view |
| 2019-12-17 | srujanakeerthi | 50 | view |
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| 2019-12-15 | Chayank_11 | 33 | view |
| 2019-12-05 | Opak Pulu | 50 | view |
- Governments should invest as much in the arts as they do in the military. 50
- The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar. 50
- A pet food company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food in response to complaints that pets that had consumed the food experienced vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness. After the recall, the pet food company tested samples from the recalled foo 50
- The following argument was made in a newspaper editorial:“The autonomy of any country is based on the strength of its borders; if the number of illegal immigrants entering a country cannot be checked, both its economy and national identity are endangere 50
- “Manned space flight is costly and dangerous. Moreover, the recent success of a series of unmanned space probes and satellites has demonstrated that a great deal of useful information can be gathered without the costs and risks associated with sending m 50
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 169, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , you
...ee with the views of your state minister,you would be able to find a lot of blogs wh...
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Line 7, column 539, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: we've
... save a lot of time and energy and once weve found the required data, then we can fo...
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Line 7, column 647, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...understanding that data and using it to the enhance our knowledge.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'while', 'for example']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.227848101266 0.240241500013 95% => OK
Verbs: 0.158227848101 0.157235817809 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0675105485232 0.0880659088768 77% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0443037974684 0.0497285424764 89% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0675105485232 0.0444667217837 152% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.113924050633 0.12292977631 93% => OK
Participles: 0.0443037974684 0.0406280797675 109% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.57638466862 2.79330140395 92% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0379746835443 0.030933414821 123% => OK
Particles: 0.00632911392405 0.0016655270985 380% => OK
Determiners: 0.0991561181435 0.0997080785238 99% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0105485232068 0.0249443105267 42% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0316455696203 0.0148568991511 213% => Maybe 'Which' is overused. If other WH_determiners like 'Who, What, Whom, Whose...' are used too in sentences, then there are no issues.
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2427.0 2732.02544248 89% => OK
No of words: 437.0 452.878318584 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.55377574371 6.0361032391 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.58838876751 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.283752860412 0.366273622748 77% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.201372997712 0.280924506359 72% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.139588100686 0.200843997647 70% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.091533180778 0.132149295362 69% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57638466862 2.79330140395 92% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 219.290929204 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49885583524 0.48968727796 102% => OK
Word variations: 56.1394927423 55.4138127331 101% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6194690265 82% => OK
Sentence length: 25.7058823529 23.380412469 110% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.8599657061 59.4972553346 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.764705882 141.124799967 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7058823529 23.380412469 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.647058823529 0.674092028746 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 45.8431821241 51.4728631049 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.4296875 1.64882698954 87% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.339303945567 0.391690518653 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.121894173505 0.123202303941 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0918302314737 0.077325440228 119% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.51582978999 0.547984918172 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.141249049416 0.149214159877 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.145847029728 0.161403998019 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0570650936787 0.0892212321368 64% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.398545229646 0.385218514788 103% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0267198460064 0.0692045440612 39% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.247535085974 0.275328986314 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0119531887311 0.0653680567796 18% => Paragraphs are similar to each other.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.30420353982 57% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 13.5995575221 81% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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