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 emergence of social media has been a topic of much discussion in the recent decade. Social media has emerged as a platform that connects people remotely or distantly located. It has introduced new ways of communication and has changed the human life over the course of its development. Apart from the social connect that it provides many individuals have been successfully using it as a platform to showcase their skills and earn lots of money through it. Many people act as influencers and create trends that are followed by many. Social media also acts as a platform where people can voice their opinions, share their thoughts, motivate other people, etc. Apart from the social connect that it was supposed to build, it has been used for various other purposes. It can influence not only the daily lives of people but also the factors affecting a nation as a whole.
Political opinions for example are now being discussed upon or debated on a wide range currently. Many individuals express their opinions through form of posts or blogs. They discuss about the political agenda, the candidates and where the national politics is headed. These blogs and social media posts help them to make sure that their opinions are heard by many people which would not have been the case otherwise. People who were not comfortable to openly discussing politics are now taking keen interests and commenting about their opinions. Blogs and social media have given them a platform which they are comfortable using resulting in people being more forthcoming.
The fact that they are discussing these things means they are more cognizant than before. Expressing an opinion or participating in a debate requires knowledge of the topic, thus making sure that the people who do put up these blogs are more aware because they must do their homework. Some people are of the opinion that since a lot of people are discussing or blogging the standards of coverage of political topics will decline. This is not completely untrue.
Although, social platforms have given people the opportunity, it has also engendered the rise of frivolous discussions and irrelevant redundant bloggings. Dilettantes claim to have great erudition and regularly flood the social media with opinions or discussions which are irrelevant. Amongst the plethora of information it is difficult to identify genuine information. It is difficult to understand and segregate important topics and information. This does have an impact on the discourse of any event. It does not give us the actual picture.
The increase in the number of online discussions does help ensure that people are more involved in the politics or discourse of any event in the nation. It gives them an opportunity to express themselves while being in their comfort zone. On the contrary this platform also creates some unnecessary flow pf information which might wrongly represent a situation and thus wrongly influence the corresponding events. So, overall I would agree that it is a balanced situation right now wherein people must participate but not without keen interest and proper knowledge.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 41, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'things'' or 'thing's'?
Suggestion: things'; thing's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, thus, while, apart from, for example, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 33.0505617978 148% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2623.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 510.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1431372549 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71835785629 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 215.323595506 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490196078431 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 832.5 704.065955056 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.149767453 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.6785714286 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2142857143 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.57142857143 5.21951772744 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.83258426966 269% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175268923805 0.243740707755 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0512839589994 0.0831039109588 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0537669995164 0.0758088955206 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0989860360196 0.150359130593 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0385876300198 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.1392134831 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 100.480337079 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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