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.

In this era of information, new data and everyday happenings are expanding the sphere of information to infinite. Hence, making it difficult for a common man to be cognizant about everything happening in the surrounding. Prior to the advent of technology and internet, a person was satisfied with the knowledge of what happens in his/her own country and the place he/she resides. But with the ever increasing curiosity of man to be updated by every little occurrence in the surrounding and the deep down rooted desire to be aware about each and every little happening in the world has been made possible with the invention of internet. Though, it is quite difficult or one may say outside the capacity of a person to retain or in some cases browse through all the facts and new information that is added every single day. Therefore, making us choose what to read and what to shun away from. Making humans best at a screening process- choosing what interests us, or what is important to us and neglecting the rest.

Internet has made our lives so easy and learning anything is no more an arduous task. Say, a person wants to learn guitar, or an another language, it has become so easy and possible. Additionally, people do not need to remember every little piece of information, "google" it, and one has it in a jiffy. Internet has made multitasking an easy phenomenon for humans. Moreover, it has helped humans to be adaptive to an entire different topic in a flick of seconds. for example, a person may be watching a documentary on war, and the nest moment doing yoga with the help of a video online.

People are no longer fixated in a particular field. They have realized the delicate intricacies of various different fields on each other. With the help of internet and mass media, people across the globe can work on a single project that requires the expertise of different fields. The advent of internet has been a boon to the humans, but never forget the side effects it has on the society.

Youth are the most vulnerable to use of internet. At a tender age, they have no control on themselves, and are not certain when to restrict the use, before it gets addictive. various deleterious effects could include avoiding regular study time, addiction to video games, lack of physical exercise and the basic values that is required to be a part of the community. Excessive use of internet and social sites can make the younger generation secluded from what is the real world, impacting their growth, physically and mentally. In fact, restraining their attention span.

As a result, youth often need the proper guidance from their parents and adults, as they need to be great role models ensuring great mental control over the excessive and harmful use of internet and technology. Internet, is a blessing to everyone and hence should be used in the best way possible, making us more cognizant about our surroundings and not indeed crutches to it.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 127, Rule ID: AN_ANOTHER[1]
Message: One of these determiners is redundant in this context. Choose only one: 'a language' or 'another language'.
Suggestion: a language; another language
...Say, a person wants to learn guitar, or an another language, it has become so easy and possible. Ad...
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Line 3, column 474, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: For
... different topic in a flick of seconds. for example, a person may be watching a doc...
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Line 7, column 7, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
...effects it has on the society. Youth are the most vulnerable to use of internet....
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Line 7, column 176, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Various
...rict the use, before it gets addictive. various deleterious effects could include avoid...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'hence', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'second', 'so', 'therefore', 'for example', 'in fact', 'as a result', 'in some cases']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.230228471002 0.240241500013 96% => OK
Verbs: 0.151142355009 0.157235817809 96% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0966608084359 0.0880659088768 110% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0386643233743 0.0497285424764 78% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0404217926186 0.0444667217837 91% => OK
Prepositions: 0.105448154657 0.12292977631 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0544815465729 0.0406280797675 134% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.72028279508 2.79330140395 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0369068541301 0.030933414821 119% => OK
Particles: 0.00175746924429 0.0016655270985 106% => OK
Determiners: 0.112478031634 0.0997080785238 113% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0105448154657 0.0249443105267 42% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0175746924429 0.0148568991511 118% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2967.0 2732.02544248 109% => OK
No of words: 510.0 452.878318584 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.81764705882 6.0361032391 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.352941176471 0.366273622748 96% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.250980392157 0.280924506359 89% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.190196078431 0.200843997647 95% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.123529411765 0.132149295362 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72028279508 2.79330140395 97% => OK
Unique words: 268.0 219.290929204 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525490196078 0.48968727796 107% => OK
Word variations: 63.474084777 55.4138127331 115% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6194690265 116% => OK
Sentence length: 21.25 23.380412469 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.9062981968 59.4972553346 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.625 141.124799967 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.25 23.380412469 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.674092028746 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 46.3480392157 51.4728631049 90% => OK
Elegance: 1.69465648855 1.64882698954 103% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.376563274417 0.391690518653 96% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.11112295699 0.123202303941 90% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0882462740847 0.077325440228 114% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.514690771438 0.547984918172 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.154421213698 0.149214159877 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144266323211 0.161403998019 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0511109294139 0.0892212321368 57% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.377860153192 0.385218514788 98% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0519489573603 0.0692045440612 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.261822608807 0.275328986314 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0333616732115 0.0653680567796 51% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.4325221239 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.30420353982 132% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 7.22455752212 125% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 3.66592920354 164% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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