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.
Accessible sources of information, like mass media and the internet have indeed led to people having shorter attention spans due to new information being readily available at any given moment. However, the positive side of the issue cannot be ignored- people have the ability to find information and learn about the world in a much easier and quicker way than ever before.
Prior to a world in which mass media and the internet were readily available to most people, information and knowledge were restricted to specific locations. For example, if a person wanted to learn about molecular biology in the 19th century, they would have needed to find a library that contained information on that subject, or join a university. Now, with a few words typed into an online search engine, information on molecular biology can appear instantly on anyone's personal electronic device, be it a laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
Furthermore, forms of mass media like the newspaper and television have also contributed to the accessibility of information. News stories as well as informational articles on specific topics printed in newspapers allow the public to educate themselves on important topics. As such, editors of newspapers do the important work of sourcing various articles for the public and everything of importance for the day can be found on that one newspaper.
Although newspapers, as well as news and information on the internet, are easily accessible to people without them having to do much work for it, there is a certain problem that arises which deals with bias. A person who only reads one newspaper their whole life is undoubtedly reading biased news- after all, that newspaper only publishes what its editors decide to include. As such, a person reading the newspaper might believe they are reading important news, but they are only reading what is important to that newspaper company.
Despite some drawbacks of mass media and the internet, overall, the human species has been able to benefit greatly through the vast information content readily available to them through mass media and the internet.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, so, well, after all, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 33.0505617978 48% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1786.0 2235.4752809 80% => OK
No of words: 343.0 442.535393258 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20699708455 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7694767457 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 215.323595506 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545189504373 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 567.9 704.065955056 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 20.2370786517 59% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 24.7233301874 60.3974514979 41% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 148.833333333 118.986275619 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.5833333333 23.4991977007 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.75 5.21951772744 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.206832698556 0.243740707755 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0774219940052 0.0831039109588 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0583478412077 0.0758088955206 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121627433267 0.150359130593 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0598658588782 0.0667264976115 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 14.1392134831 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.6 48.8420337079 71% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.53 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 100.480337079 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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.