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.
In this world, where technology is advancing day by day and has helped the people to be aware of news from all over the world, the interests of different people are not same. The user intends to see the information that is liked by him, so the technology has taken such step to provide them information of their interest only. Therefore, the mass media and internet inherently have capability to show relevant information to users.
The ability of user to sort things out is in some cases dependent upon his/her trust. It can be justified by taking the example of searching on google. When a user types keywords to search some material for him, google renders links to relevant material. Those links are huge in quantity and user picks a few to visit. From the users' past experience, he/she observes that some of the links provide quality material and others just filing the content ignoring the quality. Lets say the Dawn news has more authentic information than a web page created by an individual. The user totally gets biased towards the Dawn news because of his developed trust. In such cases the ability to sort things out are just because of his trust.
The next factor that comes into consideration is the identification of pattern within the contents. Many of the news websites put the latest information at top and corresponding background to the bottom. Once the user understands such pattern, when he/she goes through first line of background information, he/she quickly understands that the latest content has been ended. This is true for any of the content written pages. Taking another example of Wikipedia, it groups the content by its relevant heading that helps user to determine which content is of his interest.
Taking a look on the model of mass media, it inherently helps in providing the relevant content to the user. For example, Facebook. It shows the user the content of the pages that the user has liked or has shown his interest somewhere in that content. It also provides the option to discard the content that user don't like. In the web browsers, there is concept of cookies that determines the interested areas of user in particular field and then provides content only relevant to his interest.
Till now, we have observed that the user is helped by mass media and internet themselves to provide relevant content and in some cases allowing user to sort things out by understanding the patterns. However, the users' ability may not be enhanced the manual work. Lets take the example of manual accounting of users' business. In such cases, the user needs to skim through all of the entries until reaching to the entry of his own choice. But the user can take help from the concept of mass media to group relevant things together hence spending less time in sorting things out.
It can be clearly understood that the mass media and internet themselves help the user in understanding the relevant data and the user just needs to find the patterns in them to be more efficient.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 334, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experience'.
Suggestion: experience
...er picks a few to visit. From the users past experience, he/she observes that some of the links...
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Line 2, column 372, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...s past experience, he/she observes that some of the links provide quality material and othe...
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Line 2, column 472, Rule ID: LETS_LET[1]
Message: Did you mean 'Let's'?
Suggestion: Let's
...iling the content ignoring the quality. Lets say the Dawn news has more authentic in...
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Line 4, column 313, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...option to discard the content that user dont like. In the web browsers, there is con...
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Line 5, column 212, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'users'' or 'user's'?
Suggestion: users'; user's
...nderstanding the patterns. However, the users ability may not be enhanced the manual ...
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Line 5, column 263, Rule ID: LETS_LET[1]
Message: Did you mean 'Let's'?
Suggestion: Let's
...ty may not be enhanced the manual work. Lets take the example of manual accounting o...
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Line 5, column 371, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...h cases, the user needs to skim through all of the entries until reaching to the entry of ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, look, may, so, then, therefore, for example, in particular, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 86.0 58.6224719101 147% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2491.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 518.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80888030888 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77070365392 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54233031862 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.445945945946 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 779.4 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.8467058681 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.2592592593 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1851851852 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.11111111111 5.21951772744 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.118596154545 0.243740707755 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0391477775962 0.0831039109588 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0411158741841 0.0758088955206 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0702802441105 0.150359130593 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0378352507084 0.0667264976115 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.