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.
The increased use of social media has served both as a boon and as a bane. Many people use it to gain popularity among the masses and to earn money by illegitimate means. The increased use of blogs to express one’s opinions has definitely decreased the quality of political discourse in United States.
Firstly, there are no restrictions as to who can start writing his/her own blog. Ranging from children to elders, dilettantes to experienced, anybody can use the power of social media to express his/her own views. It is quite obvious that the content showcased by someone who has little knowledge of the subject will not plumb the issue adequately. There have been many examples where people have got misled and ultimately formed false opinions about someone or something.
Furthermore, anybody who has greater popularity or number of followers will definitely have an added advantage. Many people become partisans considering the more popular ones as always accurate. The most common examples to consider are the celebrities whom many people follow blindly. Now a political opinion by someone like XYZ will be greatly acknowledged and supported by his huge number of followers without delving on the depth. Thus quality is greatly compromised.
Finally, one more noteworthy practice taking place lately is the spread of fake news. Many people out of sheer greed for popularity, enimity, even for fun or any other unacceptable reason have started spreading fake news on social media platforms like Whats App, Facebook, etc. Considering the huge percentage of our population using these platforms, this act definitely proves advantageous to such writers. For example, there was a recent spread of a news which held two men belonging to a political party responsible for raping a teenager. Just because of the spread of this fake news, they were surrounded by a mob of some agitated youth and were beaten badly. Now definitely there are people who trust only established news channels or other legitimate sources. The social media does not affect some percentage of our population. But many of them too ultimately start losing faith considering the fact that many such sources too are venal.
Thus quality is definitely compromised with increased number of people using social media to express poilitcal opinions.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, so, thus, as to, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 33.0505617978 48% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
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: 1958.0 2235.4752809 88% => OK
No of words: 374.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23529411765 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75474264714 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566844919786 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 644.4 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.8331175103 60.3974514979 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 93.2380952381 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8095238095 23.4991977007 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.38095238095 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177034610844 0.243740707755 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0504203041808 0.0831039109588 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0677127849469 0.0758088955206 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.098965744184 0.150359130593 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0544214640112 0.0667264976115 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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