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.
In today's world the social media and the internet have an huge impact on the minds of the people. People have access to a abundant amount of information on the internet and through the media. However, due to ample information available people are not focused on many important issues which needs to be addressed rather they focus their attention to the information which they find interesting. I agree with the author that mass media have caused people's attention to spans to get shorter but I feel that this effect has 2 sides i.e. it has some positive as well as negative impacts.
Firstly, in today's fast paced life people do not much time to go through the detail of every information available. For example, consider news, due to advancements in technology there are many online applications which give access to daily news. So people can get view large amount of news in different sectors within few minutes. But as huge amount of information is available to the users, a user only focuses on the information that interests him or her. For example, there are various issues going on in the society which are needed to be addressed by the people of the society but there are many people who do not care about it and just address those things which interests him.her say entertainment section. This is huge disadvantage of having a lot of information available that people forget or rather do not care of addressing important issues.
Secondly, in the field of education due to ample amount of data which is available across the web, nowadays students do not even think for themselves and just search on the web about the questions they need answers for. For example, I know a school going child who do his homework by just browsing on the internet and writing the answers without even thinking. This is definitely going to affect his performance as he do not even try to solve mathematics sum and just copy which is available on the internet.
Finally, the advent of mass media and the internet have made people alert of what is happening in their surrounding. As the information is available very easily even the people who had no interest in politics, news are now getting access to it. These people go through a lot of information daily and now are getting interested in it.
To sum up, I feel that even if the internet and mass media have huge amount of information available people should not allow their attention span s to get shorter and they should think for themselves by using the internet and mass media.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 56, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
... the social media and the internet have an huge impact on the minds of the people....
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Line 1, column 121, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...ds of the people. People have access to a abundant amount of information on the i...
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Line 5, column 419, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'does'.
Suggestion: does
...y going to affect his performance as he do not even try to solve mathematics sum a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, for example, i feel, as well as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2093.0 2235.4752809 94% => OK
No of words: 441.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74603174603 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59112740089 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.446712018141 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 666.9 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.833310154 60.3974514979 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.117647059 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9411764706 23.4991977007 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64705882353 5.21951772744 127% => OK
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 : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.276416719532 0.243740707755 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105580356689 0.0831039109588 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0802134223704 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191084841677 0.150359130593 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.104752200228 0.0667264976115 157% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.57 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 100.480337079 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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.