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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

People are more attentive towards the things they like and have developed a ability to overlook unimportant issues. People, before mass media and internet use to focus on all the news available to them, even if it was of no importance to them.However, the mass media and internet have caused people to focus on more important and interesting things.
Mass communication and internet are a result of technological advancements. One has developed dependency on computers, mobile phones, television, etc. Everyone uses internet, ranging from the most basic needs, such as buying clothes, paying electric bills, to more important issues such as banking and national security. The access to mass communication helps to get information about whats going on in the world. People come to various activities happening around the world through news channel. News channel cover a wide area of fields such as politics, sports, business, etc. As a result people choose to watch the news in their area of interest.
Elucidating above statement, consider a banker who is more interested in watching banking news. He is more likely to follow the financial news channel rather than local news channel. There can also be the case that he must be following two or three different financial news channel. As a result, he will get to see what he likes rather than watching some unwanted local news. If this had been the case few decades back, the only reliable source of information of finance was newspapers. As a result, the information available at that time was not from all over the world. Hence, the source of bankers information was limited.
Moreover, with the help of internet we can access any information. Culture, politics, food, lifestyle, literature, science, etc you google it and you will be enlightened about the same. The person wanting to buy new phone or being curious about how an automobile works can easily get information about the same through internet. Considering the example of person who was curious about same thing few decades back, it was not possible for him to look up everything on internet. As a result he was more attentive to various unimportant things rather than his field of interest.
Although, the invention of mass media and internet is a boon for many of us, it has some deleterious effects as well. As a result people become more attentive to violent crimes as well. Because of mass media a crime that was unknown to some part of the world now becomes known. Exemplifying, a person who didn't known how to steal a car can be educated to do so by some news channel showing how a their stole a car. This have a bad effect on society. Also there are various websites that show how you can make weapons of mass destruction with just few chemicals. Hence, it is harmful as well.
In conclusion, people are more attentive towards the things they like and have developed a ability to overlook the unimportant issues.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
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Suggestion: However
...even if it was of no importance to them.However, the mass media and internet have cause...
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Suggestion: what's
...nication helps to get information about whats going on in the world. People come to v...
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Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'channel' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'channels'.
Suggestion: channels
...g two or three different financial news channel. As a result, he will get to see what h...
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Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... him to look up everything on internet. As a result he was more attentive to vario...
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Message: “Because” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...re attentive to violent crimes as well. Because of mass media a crime that was unknown ...
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...comes known. Exemplifying, a person who didnt known how to steal a car can be educate...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...car. This have a bad effect on society. Also there are various websites that show ho...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'moreover', 'so', 'well', 'in conclusion', 'such as', 'as a result']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.258064516129 0.240241500013 107% => OK
Verbs: 0.141577060932 0.157235817809 90% => OK
Adjectives: 0.089605734767 0.0880659088768 102% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0537634408602 0.0497285424764 108% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0394265232975 0.0444667217837 89% => OK
Prepositions: 0.111111111111 0.12292977631 90% => OK
Participles: 0.0376344086022 0.0406280797675 93% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.72354380242 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0358422939068 0.030933414821 116% => OK
Particles: 0.00179211469534 0.0016655270985 108% => OK
Determiners: 0.0931899641577 0.0997080785238 93% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0143369175627 0.0249443105267 57% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0179211469534 0.0148568991511 121% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2933.0 2732.02544248 107% => OK
No of words: 498.0 452.878318584 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.88955823293 6.0361032391 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.58838876751 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.35140562249 0.366273622748 96% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.25702811245 0.280924506359 91% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.178714859438 0.200843997647 89% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.126506024096 0.132149295362 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72354380242 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 219.290929204 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479919678715 0.48968727796 98% => OK
Word variations: 55.5875156359 55.4138127331 100% => OK
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6194690265 141% => OK
Sentence length: 17.1724137931 23.380412469 73% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.4125279312 59.4972553346 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.137931034 141.124799967 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1724137931 23.380412469 73% => 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: 42.8752250381 51.4728631049 83% => OK
Elegance: 1.73282442748 1.64882698954 105% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.403642971311 0.391690518653 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.100336141065 0.123202303941 81% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0815719476112 0.077325440228 105% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.451156160936 0.547984918172 82% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.176426777104 0.149214159877 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12314174316 0.161403998019 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0906518574995 0.0892212321368 102% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.280792060724 0.385218514788 73% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.079316705028 0.0692045440612 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.267268739984 0.275328986314 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101008655009 0.0653680567796 155% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88274336283 164% => OK
Positive topic words: 12.0 7.22455752212 166% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 13.5995575221 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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