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 la

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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 this era of technology, people surely are being furnished with a lot of information which certainly is specific to their respective interests while in the earlier times, before the advent of internet, people use to go through a ton of resources before acquiring the knowledge they required.

In a way, this surfing through a whole lot of information would give a wider insight to the subject rather than going through the information that people think would be suffice.

Relying on published articles, books etc from authentic sources is more beneficial than easier sources like blogs or internet articles from unknown authors.

While it is true that internet holds abundant of information, the quality content out of this sea of information is very limited. Moreover it is difficult to distinguish the spurious content from the authentic ones as internet provides equal freedom to everyone, from an erudite to an absolutely naive person, everyone gets equal opportunity to express themselves and also one of the major problems of the internet is that majority of the people do not reveal their true identity or stay anonymous while publishing their articles or blogs, which makes it difficult to determine the authenticity of the content. Take the example of the information giant, Wikipedia, anyone can post content on it, there is no such check on the authenticity and validity of the content.

With the identity of the author being uncertain, many criminal minded people can make use of this loophole to spread false rumours, which could cause disputes in the society.

This is not the case with published journals or books as the content is crosschecked before being published. Also, there are certain web sites that emulate the design of the original ones, in this case, people might think they are gathering information from an authentic source which in reality is a ruse to educate people with the wrong information. In this case, people should be aware of the original website’s address and check if they are on the right address while clicking on a site.

With the advent of mass media and internet, it can be observed that the majority of content reaching common people is unauthentic which is producing knowledgable yet naive people.

In my views, while internet is a great place to gain knowledge, we should also make sure that the sources we are obtaining information from are reliable and accurate.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...ple think would be suffice. Relying on published articles, books etc from authe...
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Suggestion: Moreover,
...his sea of information is very limited. Moreover it is difficult to distinguish the spur...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, moreover, so, then, while, in my view, it is true

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2036.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 400.0 442.535393258 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73424463975 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.495 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 645.3 704.065955056 92% => 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: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

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: 33.0 23.0359550562 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 96.6707973255 60.3974514979 160% => OK
Chars per sentence: 169.666666667 118.986275619 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.3333333333 23.4991977007 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.91666666667 5.21951772744 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 8.0 4.97078651685 161% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208631704048 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0806062603231 0.0831039109588 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0420034939787 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0983139598171 0.150359130593 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0303110404542 0.0667264976115 45% => 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: 19.2 14.1392134831 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.98 48.8420337079 78% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.1743820225 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 100.480337079 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 11.8971910112 155% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.2143820225 136% => OK
text_standard: 19.0 11.7820224719 161% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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