Claim: The emergence of the online “blogosphere” and social media has significantly weakened the quality of political discourse in the United States.
Reason: When anyone can publish political opinions easily, standards for covering news and political topics will inevitably decline.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
The statement relates the emergence of technology with politics. Technology continues to evolve, proving to be a boon for the nations like United States. The claim is that the emergence of online blogosphere and social media has weakened the quality of political discourse in the United States; and the author assumes the reason can be decline in covering of news and political topics because anyone can place his/her opinion easily through social media. I completely agree with the claim and reason stated by the author, because earlier due to lack of accessibility, people were helpless and they tend to follow the news and political topics covered by news channels merely.
Emergence of the online "blogosphere" has made it easy for each citizen of the country to place their views and opinions about the current political situation of the country.
Everyone is allowed to write whatever they want to. It may also happen people end up debating for a better political party. Social Media entitles right to everyone to come forward and speak. For example, if a person has faced many challenges and hardships for completing any government related work, he/she might upload his/her experience on the blogging website or upload a video on social media. This will create awareness among the people and people may come up with an insightful decision while selecting the ruling political party; whereas that particular person may not be able to reach to news channels to putforth his/her experience. Therefore, easy access can also be a reason to the depreciating quality of political discourse in the United States.
But on the other hand, a person may misuse the accessibility to slander somebody's reputation publicly on blogspots. This can be a disadvantage of technological advances which would have not been possible if news channels and media houses are solely allowed to cover political topics. Same disadvantage can be observed with the news channels. A political party may pay a high amount of money to news channels and in return asking news channels to bombast the reputation of that political party. Again, this would have not been the case if there were no news channels and citizens conduct political discussions online. But online political discussions does not guarantee the validation of source of information.
Online blogosphere and social media will continue to weaken the political discourse in the united states because people are moving towards technological developments. Each and everyone of us are highly dependent on technology; rather than watching news channels we tend to receive updates from mobile applications, because it not only saves time but also promises to be genuinely, lucid.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, therefore, whereas, while, for example, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2290.0 2235.4752809 102% => OK
No of words: 436.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25229357798 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56953094068 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87433183886 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 753.3 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.376037851 60.3974514979 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.526315789 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9473684211 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.26315789474 5.21951772744 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.4499126315 0.243740707755 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137139487101 0.0831039109588 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.135519945061 0.0758088955206 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.255275077325 0.150359130593 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.120084616412 0.0667264976115 180% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 100.480337079 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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