Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.
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 and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
The statement that scandals are useful in focusing people’s attention to certain problems comes from the fact that they are often about exciting and incendiary topics. There is no doubt that big scandals are very effective in grabbing people’s attention by being “newsworthy”. Big scandals can be something that everyone talks about, inviting diverse opinions and actions of the community members. However, we have to be careful to examine not only what kind of information the scandal is spreading, but also what the quality of the information is. In this essay, I argue that scandals fail to focus people’s attention on more important issues, and that it rather overshadows the important topics that need to be discussed with other scandalous news.
As the entertainment industry develops, one of the most scandalous topics in our society is the private lives of celebrities. We want to know what happens to celebrity marriages or celebrity breakups, and debate, often with a lack of any credible source of information, whether which of the couple is more to blame. Often, celebrity scandals have been used as a way to cover up important political news in society. For example, when the divorce between Song Hye-gyo and Song Joong-ki was first announced to the South Korean fans, every news outlet was covering the news and dominating all the main South Korean search engine portals. Meanwhile, the South Korean government has reached an important decision to raise taxes on houseowners, and an important tax-related scandal of a prominent politician was being questioned in the House of Representatives. Therefore, scandals can be a major distraction from more important social and political issues, which divert the direction of social discussion from the topics that really matter.
Another weakness of scandals is that they often times fail to represent accurate information. Because scandals are discussed by a great number of people at once, the facts are often exaggerated as they get delivered from one mouth to another. Also, many news outlets who want to grab people’s attention instantly, post articles with click-bait titles that can are very exaggerated or misleading. With false information and exaggerated accounts of what actually happened, scandals confound people’s discussion of the event. As a result, scandals can be very divisive, causing the society to form two or more opposing points of view.
To be sure, in the news industry these days, there is no choice but the news titles and contents to be more attention-grabbing to focus people’s attention. With the flow of an infinite amount of news articles and information floating around the Internet, it is understandable why some would argue that we would have to go far as to use “scandals” to grab people’s attention on important matters. However, raising people’s awareness on important social issues shouldn’t be just predicated on the first step of attracting people’s attention. After the first step of grabbing people’s attention, there is a much more important step of learning, discussing and taking action. With misinformation and exaggerated facts, a meaningful discussion and learning cannot take place in our society. In conclusion, news should always aim to seek for more appropriate ways to grab people’s attention by providing the public with what is truly newsworthy. Scandalous and incendiary news accounts do more harm than good to the society.
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- Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim In developing and suppor 66
- Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could 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 su 66
- Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim In developing and suppor 66
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 82, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'problems'' or 'problem's'?
Suggestion: problems'; problem's
... focusing people’s attention to certain problems comes from the fact that they are often...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, really, so, therefore, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, kind of, no doubt, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2934.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 549.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34426229508 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84053189512 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02304950974 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491803278689 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 891.0 704.065955056 127% => 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: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.7527290498 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.565217391 118.986275619 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8695652174 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.73913043478 5.21951772744 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 5.13820224719 311% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.185826146801 0.243740707755 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.063742754595 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0353895608707 0.0758088955206 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127357296759 0.150359130593 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0311564124375 0.0667264976115 47% => 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: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 100.480337079 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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