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 lar

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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.

Mass media play a vital role in providing information to the people. Internet is one of the very important resource where people get to know latest news and media has presence over there as well. Mass media and internet together has made massive information available to the people unlike news paper which concentrates more on local news and less on global aspects. So I agree with the fact that overall effect has been positive, while people have become less attentive they are now possessing enhanced ability to sort through large quantities of information.

Traditional news paper cater more of local news than global news. This leads less information be to available to the end user. Having only one news paper enabled people to spend more time on specific news hence they were more attentive. Introduction of mass media and internet has taken things by par. Now tremendous about of information is available at any time. What happens in japan gets instantly shared in the USA and china or any corner of the world. People have immediate access to all the happenings around the globe. Apparently, people can given attention to the information of their interest rather than irrelevant and inconsequential news.

Medial has become more pragmatic now a days. They have come up with digital techniques on targeting the right audience. Facebook is the biggest content based social media website where people spend a plethora of time. Mass media makes use of this medium and reaches the maximum audience. Facebook itself has a 'trending' section which is no less a news, providing latest information and happenings. This availability to plethora of information has enhances people's knowledge and ability to filter what they are interested in.

To bolster my statements, I would like to give an example. There is a mobile app names 'inshort', which sends latest news in sixty characters as a notification to mobile phones. This app has become increasingly famous as it does not give elaborated news but all the news in a very laconic way. The popularization of such app shows how people tend to know more info in short rather than few in detail. Other news channel came up with similar idea on their channel website where people can read news of their interest in a very lucid way. Thus, we can see that the overall effect is undoubtedly positive.

One advantage of having access of diversified news is that, people may not have profound knowledge of everything but in bit and pieces of everything. Now, this adds to the advantage when people meet up to socialize, one would be able to talk on any topic. Upon discussion, people will get to know more about and ultimately profound knowledge of that topic.

Therefore, we can extrapolate that even though mass media and the internet have caused people's attention span to degrade, the overall effect has been positive. They are now possessing enhanced ability to sort through large quantities of information and find more relevant information.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 137, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'know the latest'.
Suggestion: know the latest
... important resource where people get to know latest news and media has presence over there ...
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Line 1, column 290, Rule ID: NEWS_PAPER[1]
Message: Did you mean 'newspaper'? This word sequence is usually spelled together.
Suggestion: newspaper
...ormation available to the people unlike news paper which concentrates more on local news a...
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Line 1, column 372, Rule ID: AGREE_WITH_THE_FACT[1]
Message: Use simply 'agree that'.
Suggestion: agree that
...l news and less on global aspects. So I agree with the fact that overall effect has been positive, while...
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Line 1, column 476, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
... people have become less attentive they are now possessing enhanced ability to sort through large ...
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Line 3, column 13, Rule ID: NEWS_PAPER[1]
Message: Did you mean 'newspaper'? This word sequence is usually spelled together.
Suggestion: newspaper
...antities of information. Traditional news paper cater more of local news than global ne...
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Line 3, column 144, Rule ID: NEWS_PAPER[1]
Message: Did you mean 'newspaper'? This word sequence is usually spelled together.
Suggestion: newspaper
...ilable to the end user. Having only one news paper enabled people to spend more time on sp...
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Line 5, column 34, Rule ID: NOW_A_DAYS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'nowadays'?
Suggestion: nowadays
...ws. Medial has become more pragmatic now a days. They have come up with digital techniq...
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Line 5, column 38, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a day' or simply 'days'?
Suggestion: a day; days
... Medial has become more pragmatic now a days. They have come up with digital techniq...
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Line 5, column 353, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'providing the latest'.
Suggestion: providing the latest
...ending section which is no less a news, providing latest information and happenings. This availa...
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Line 7, column 103, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'sends the latest'.
Suggestion: sends the latest
...re is a mobile app names inshort, which sends latest news in sixty characters as a notificat...
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Line 11, column 166, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
... overall effect has been positive. They are now possessing enhanced ability to sort through large ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['apparently', 'but', 'hence', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'in short']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.264814814815 0.240241500013 110% => OK
Verbs: 0.164814814815 0.157235817809 105% => OK
Adjectives: 0.107407407407 0.0880659088768 122% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0611111111111 0.0497285424764 123% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0277777777778 0.0444667217837 62% => OK
Prepositions: 0.105555555556 0.12292977631 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0407407407407 0.0406280797675 100% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.68503123508 2.79330140395 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0388888888889 0.030933414821 126% => OK
Particles: 0.0037037037037 0.0016655270985 222% => OK
Determiners: 0.0740740740741 0.0997080785238 74% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0148148148148 0.0249443105267 59% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0185185185185 0.0148568991511 125% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2995.0 2732.02544248 110% => OK
No of words: 499.0 452.878318584 110% => OK
Chars per words: 6.00200400802 6.0361032391 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72634191566 4.58838876751 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.336673346693 0.366273622748 92% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.238476953908 0.280924506359 85% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.180360721443 0.200843997647 90% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.130260521042 0.132149295362 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68503123508 2.79330140395 96% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 219.290929204 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.4749498998 0.48968727796 97% => OK
Word variations: 54.8866572119 55.4138127331 99% => OK
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6194690265 141% => OK
Sentence length: 17.2068965517 23.380412469 74% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.742443228 59.4972553346 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.275862069 141.124799967 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2068965517 23.380412469 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.379310344828 0.674092028746 56% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.21349557522 211% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 41.0545919425 51.4728631049 80% => OK
Elegance: 1.6204379562 1.64882698954 98% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.456424032124 0.391690518653 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0649120167747 0.123202303941 53% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0471849808051 0.077325440228 61% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.449861733202 0.547984918172 82% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.12546367727 0.149214159877 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.154177465999 0.161403998019 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0931123012384 0.0892212321368 104% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.325488614317 0.385218514788 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.125093462826 0.0692045440612 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.310330134083 0.275328986314 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0981302538747 0.0653680567796 150% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30420353982 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.88274336283 266% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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