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 examine your own position on the statement. Explore the extent to which you either agree or disagree with it, and support your reasoning with evidence and/or examples. Be sure to reflect on ways in which the statement might or might not be true, and how this informs your thinking on the subject.
Has the emergence of blogosphere and social media abated the quality of political discourse in the United States? The speaker, here, agrees to it and believes that if people can express their opinion easily via blogs and social media, standards for covering news and political topics will definitely decline. I, however, believe that this is not quite true and that there is still a need for good quality discourse and news coverage. There are many reasons like quality of discussions and the speed and ease of sharing ideas online.
Firstly, just by blogging or posting views online, does not make a discussion about the topic easy. Doing so only helps to express one’s personal views. If someone wants to point out ideas otherwise, they have to express it in comments which is in my case not a very effective way to share ideas. Blogs and social media are not be a proper medium where there can be good quality discussions and news coverage.
Secondly, to have a good quality discussion, there should be people with different views discussing their opinions together. For example, discussion events on news channels, etc. make this possible where different politicians can come together and express their different views. Even different organizations have board meetings where members having different opinions can express their ideas and together can contribute much effectively to the organization as a whole.
Some people can say that one can write and express their ideas better in a written way, that’s true but ‘only upto a certain extant’. Expressing ideas orally is much faster than writing blogs and comments and then waiting for another person to respond back. One cannot convey their messages easily and completely on the social media.
In conclusion, I disagree with the author’s beliefs and would say that good quality discussions and news coverage would always be required.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 334, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
...e ideas. Blogs and social media are not be a proper medium where there can be good...
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Line 5, column 62, Rule ID: SHOULD_BE_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'peopled'?
Suggestion: peopled
...ood quality discussion, there should be people with different views discussing their o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, then, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 58.6224719101 49% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1617.0 2235.4752809 72% => OK
No of words: 309.0 442.535393258 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23300970874 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.55969084622 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64053872905 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 215.323595506 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.556634304207 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 504.0 704.065955056 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.8023336122 60.3974514979 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.0625 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3125 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.9375 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.274143867549 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0954889090181 0.0831039109588 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0985545862023 0.0758088955206 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153912485963 0.150359130593 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.118788130387 0.0667264976115 178% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 100.480337079 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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