Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Sometimes people think nowadays the media (TV, newspaper, Internet) are less concerned about the accuracy of news than in the past, and the incorrect information may cause more problem to the public.
Sydney J. Harris once commented, “ The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” With the advent of computer technology and globalization, many people have been hinging upon the media to stay informed of the happenings around the world. Convenience seems to take precedence. One ramification of this trend is that people are less likely to sift through information and therefore have become less concerned about the precision and accuracy of the news, which directly or indirectly cause some societal problems, as distinctively described in the prompt.
To begin with, media nowadays are inclined to fabricate fake news in order to attract more readership. With more and more avenues of gaining knowledge and information, the distribution of readership has become dissipated. Therefore, media need to come up with fake yet eye-catching, attention-getting news to make readers stop to read the news stories. To exemplify, two months ago, media in Taiwan collaborated a fake story about the impending increase in the price of tissue papers. Specifically, the media news all together reported that the cost of tissue papers would increase by thirty percent. Such astonishing news immediately caused wide panic and trepidation over the amount of daily expenses among people, who all raged to nearest malls, grocery stores, or super-markets to stock the supply of tissue papers before the alleged price increase. The resultant commotion also caused some societal issues, such as that people engaged in physical fight (or altercation) when they could not get their hands on a bag of tissues papers. The turmoil had gotten out of control to an extent that Taiwanese government had to later announce that the news regarding the price increase was forged by the media, which intended to manipulate the Taiwanese residents.
Furthermore, in addition to media being the scourge of the societal issue, media deliberately send out news so that they can gain control to sway public affairs. In other ways, being able to fake news means that media would have any clout over the shape of any societal formation since people generally believe in the media’s portrayal. The Supreme Court in Taiwan last year ruled that barring same-sex marriage would not be in accordance with the Constitution. While many people were celebrating for the advancement of human rights in Taiwan, some media controlled by more conservative factions began to broadcast news to disparage homosexuality by claiming that every homosexual person at least had one-thousand partners in his or her life. By faking such news, these media have successfully stirred some opposition against same-sex marriage, thereby temporarily preventing the passing of the same-sex marriage. The result of this is more profound. It has instigated many social reforms and protests, causing societal division.
Irrefutably, some dissidents may disavow my arguments by claiming that media pay more meticulous attention to the accuracy of the news that they broadcast. Their argument is grounded on the fact that more and more people have become educated, and these people also have more ways to make their voices heard. Therefore, provided that media attempted to send out inaccurate news, their bright readers would immediately spot it and send their opinions to editorials, protesting for a change. Granted, with people’s level of education increasing, people are better at appraising the accuracy of news; however, have these people forgotten that people’s perspective of news has drastically changed; that is, people in contemporary society have regarded news from media as nothing but a source of entertainment. Those educated people are clearly cognizant of the fact that journalists or those involved in media contrive news, peppering news with absorbing stories or pictures or horrifying headlines as a gimmick to increase their sales and the coverage. Transmission of news, be it accurate or inaccurate, has deteriorated into a form of business enterprise, where giving out inaccurate news can be more tantalizing than banal, trite, and uninviting accurate news. Therefore, why not broadcasting or reporting fake news? Besides, media need not assume much responsibility for faking news since they can always blame it on the source of the news or readers who actually buy the story. Therefore, I do believe that media nowadays care less about the accuracy of the news and this problem has indeed contributed to many social issues, just as evidenced by what Mitchell Kapor once said, “Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 732, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'to the nearest'.
Suggestion: to the nearest
...ly expenses among people, who all raged to nearest malls, grocery stores, or super-markets...
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Line 5, column 531, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...celebrating for the advancement of human rights in Taiwan, some media controlled ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, furthermore, however, if, may, regarding, so, therefore, while, as for, at least, in addition, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 13.8261648746 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 25.0 11.0286738351 227% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 45.0 43.0788530466 104% => OK
Preposition: 113.0 52.1666666667 217% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 23.0 8.0752688172 285% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3979.0 1977.66487455 201% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 743.0 407.700716846 182% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35531628533 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.22092198188 4.48103885553 117% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94419388539 2.67179642975 110% => OK
Unique words: 383.0 212.727598566 180% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515477792732 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 1264.5 618.680645161 204% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 83.9994153891 48.9658058833 172% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.37037037 100.406767564 147% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.5185185185 20.6045352989 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.44444444444 5.45110844103 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.85842293907 311% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.28523755499 0.236089414692 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0747324742901 0.076458572812 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0483975349909 0.0737576698707 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174279954613 0.150856017488 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0465028491266 0.0645574589148 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 11.7677419355 150% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 58.1214874552 61% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 10.1575268817 148% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 10.9000537634 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.27 8.01818996416 116% => OK
difficult_words: 202.0 86.8835125448 232% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 10.002688172 195% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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