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.
We are living in a world of modern technology. With the growth of mass communications and information technology, now it truly is the acme of human civilization. These technologies, they can be inferred to as necessary evils. For us to survive in the present time, we can not go without them. But, these things also have detrimental effects on our lives. The prompt reads that using this mass media have caused people to be better observers. I strongly disagree with the statement. The following sections present the thesis on taking this position.
First of all, the prompt says, the mass media and internet have shortened the attention span of the people. Is it true though? For instance, if we look around, we will see that, almost everyone is on their phones, laptops or computers. They sometimes get so involved that they often forget what is going on around them. They keep looking at a screen for hours. You can not continue doing something for hours if your attention span is limited. So this proves that the mass media or the internet have not shortened the attention period rather prolonged it.
The second part of the prompt says about the positive side of this specious observation that due to the short attention span, they can skim through information and find out significant information. Well, this is not justifiable in the remotest sense. There is a certain difference between observing something meticulously and having a look at something at a glimpse. This is not about just rolling someone's eye on something and to find something whatever that "catches the eye". And speaking of large quantity of information, if the attention span is shorter, well then, the opposite of what the prompt suggests is more likely to happen. For example, let's say someone who has limited concentration scope is presented with a large amount of data. The first thing they would do is look at the whole thing and then go "ugghhh" instead of diving into it. Their at-a-glance review will not help the cause and surely they can not do the job. So, this illustrates that duration of attention span is directly proportional to the ability of observing and analyzing something at depth.
However, some may argue that, some people have really keen eyes and they can fish out important things even though from a very cursory observation. Well, this may just prove that it is his inherent ability to do so. It has nothing to do with shorter attention span or any kind of enhancement on the ability by the use of mass media or internet. May be he has got a good overall sense. Still, this would be an exaggeration that even a person with keen eyes can scrutinize and find out subtle details just by going at it perfunctorily.
In conclusion, mass media and internet have their effects on us, true. But the notion made in the prompt does not hold truth. If anything, it does the opposite of what the prompt says.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 346, Rule ID: MAY_BE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'maybe' (=perhaps)?
Suggestion: Maybe
...y by the use of mass media or internet. May be he has got a good overall sense. Still,...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, really, second, so, still, then, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, speaking of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2431.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 504.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82341269841 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73829580011 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503968253968 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 738.0 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 6.24550561798 304% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.2370786517 158% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.7083639863 60.3974514979 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 75.96875 118.986275619 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.75 23.4991977007 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.90625 5.21951772744 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.272499205735 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0648837893993 0.0831039109588 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0598094505885 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14954106086 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0360215260005 0.0667264976115 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.1 14.1392134831 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 48.8420337079 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 12.1743820225 66% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.38 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.23 8.38706741573 86% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 11.8971910112 46% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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