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.
The statement attempts to bridge a relationship between mass media and our enhanced ability to sort through large quantities of information. That assumption is based on the premises that, due to mass media and internet proliferation, people's attention spans to get shorter and thus people are more able to look at up different information and find out what's important. However, in deeper analysis, I found that, there are different negative implications of mass and internet proliferation, which has not been taken into consideration. So, I disagree with the claim strongly and below I am presenting the reasons of my stance.
That is true that, due to mass media expansion, we people are losing our attention power to any specific thing. But the result of that situation is far worse than good. People are getting a superficial knowledge in an specific field. It is difficult to sort out the important information from a myriad of information and that is why, it is also difficult to point out where we should focus. At the same time, it is becoming more difficult to gain specific knowledge in any specific field, our life is getting more compacted with an astronomical rate of information infusion. So, in places where specific and extensive knowledge is required, like in academic field, students/ teachers are getting more busier to exclude unnecessary information than to delve into the subject or topics they actually need to.
Similarly, it is very difficult to sort out the most important information from a large amount of mass media and internet hoax. People's attention is getting more diverse and that is why there is a great amount of time wastage in finding the information which is actually required to focus on. Moreover, due to internet propaganda, it is also difficult to sort out the authentic and unauthentic news and thus our valuable time is being get wasted most of the times in fake news. Recently, in the US election, Facebook was accused for trending false information regarding Donuld Trump's victory, which perplexed the voters regarding the actual election scenario. After that accusation, Facebook has taken several measures to remove false information from being circulating in the internet, which was not only necessary for Facebook's business stability but for also the people of the world.
Lastly, to conclude, it is evident that, mass media and internet proliferation is making our life tougher by spreading fake news and information unworthy to focus on. People are getting disgusted and gaining superficial knowledge where they require more extensive information, which is due to only the vast information sources without any depth.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 353, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: what's
...t up different information and find out whats important. However, in deeper analysis,...
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Line 3, column 189, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[4]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'superficial knowledge'.
Suggestion: superficial knowledge
...far worse than good. People are getting a superficial knowledge in an specific field. It is difficult t...
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Line 3, column 216, 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
... are getting a superficial knowledge in an specific field. It is difficult to sort...
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Line 3, column 697, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'busier' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: busier
...c field, students/ teachers are getting more busier to exclude unnecessary information than...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, lastly, look, moreover, regarding, similarly, so, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 12.4196629213 16% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 12.9106741573 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2245.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 433.0 442.535393258 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18475750577 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88234292376 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 215.323595506 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480369515012 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 715.5 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => 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: 51.0907327779 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.058823529 118.986275619 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4705882353 23.4991977007 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52941176471 5.21951772744 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286617713828 0.243740707755 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0962876553209 0.0831039109588 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0601767863148 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18381877186 0.150359130593 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0610717053223 0.0667264976115 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.