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.
The author states that in the modern world, mass media and the internet have made distracted people which has led to their shorten their attention spans. Though this has shown positive effect it has reduced the capability of people to focus on one thing. But on the other hand can choose a important thing in all the excess information that is available on the internet and mass media. The author's statement is partially correct.
In the first sentence it states due to introduction of mass media and the internet people are attentive only for short spans, which is not actually a bad thing as one has developed the capability to differentiate between what is good or bad? or the suitable or appropriate things and the irrelevant things. So shortening of attention span is a good thing.
It is stated that the technology has overall positive effect as we can see in the today's world most of them are using smartphones which has access to the internet and also mass media which has made everyone of us alert about what is happening all around the globe. So while accessing the mobile and it's useful features a person might not focus on one thing completely but has developed the ability of multitasking.
As it says one can less focus on one thing but it helps in analyzing and having a bigger picture about a certain topic and then choose what is the right option or opinion, which is possible because of their capability to sort through large quantities of information.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: “Though” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...to their shorten their attention spans. Though this has shown positive effect it has r...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...thing. But on the other hand can choose a important thing in all the excess infor...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ble on the internet and mass media. The authors statement is partially correct. In t...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ctually a bad thing as one has developed the capability to differentiate between ...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Or
...ferentiate between what is good or bad? or the suitable or appropriate things and ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.206642066421 0.240241500013 86% => OK
Verbs: 0.188191881919 0.157235817809 120% => OK
Adjectives: 0.107011070111 0.0880659088768 122% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0369003690037 0.0497285424764 74% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0442804428044 0.0444667217837 100% => OK
Prepositions: 0.118081180812 0.12292977631 96% => OK
Participles: 0.0590405904059 0.0406280797675 145% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.58738277153 2.79330140395 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0221402214022 0.030933414821 72% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.10332103321 0.0997080785238 104% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0147601476015 0.0249443105267 59% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0332103321033 0.0148568991511 224% => Maybe 'Which' is overused. If other WH_determiners like 'Who, What, Whom, Whose...' are used too in sentences, then there are no issues.
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1477.0 2732.02544248 54% => OK
No of words: 258.0 452.878318584 57% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.72480620155 6.0361032391 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.58838876751 87% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.325581395349 0.366273622748 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.205426356589 0.280924506359 73% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.162790697674 0.200843997647 81% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.108527131783 0.132149295362 82% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58738277153 2.79330140395 93% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 219.290929204 61% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.519379844961 0.48968727796 106% => OK
Word variations: 49.7931627233 55.4138127331 90% => OK
How many sentences: 10.0 20.6194690265 48% => More sentences wanted.
Sentence length: 25.8 23.380412469 110% => OK
Sentence length SD: 81.7966380727 59.4972553346 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.7 141.124799967 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8 23.380412469 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.9 0.674092028746 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.21349557522 96% => OK
Readability: 46.3426356589 51.4728631049 90% => OK
Elegance: 1.42465753425 1.64882698954 86% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.400788883237 0.391690518653 102% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.108983533641 0.123202303941 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0465745161195 0.077325440228 60% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.640400385994 0.547984918172 117% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.208925800431 0.149214159877 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.194804911359 0.161403998019 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0962787234045 0.0892212321368 108% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.396573354099 0.385218514788 103% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0700976675166 0.0692045440612 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.285379667644 0.275328986314 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0714256222895 0.0653680567796 109% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.4325221239 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30420353982 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 7.22455752212 83% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 8.0 13.5995575221 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.