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.

Mass media and internet plays significant role in field of communication. They are responsible for spreading the news and making it accessible to every part of the world. To some extent it has caused the people's attention spans to get shorter. But, overall effect is not always positive.

First, with growing economy and rapid development in technology has made the internet accessible to almost everyone. People are able to know what is happening around the world in few seconds. Media people always try to emphasize the news that might attract large number of audience. Sometimes they even tweak the truth to get larger audience.
To illustrate, there are few news channels which concentrate on airing the news of famous people, events rather than showing the dark sides of country. Another example could be death of a poor farmer followed by Cricket World Cup tournament. In such instances media almost fail to through light on bad things happening to poor people of a nation.

In addition to this, news contained in internet is not always genuine. Sometimes, this will cause some adverse effects which is beyond one's imagination. Kavery water dispute between the state's of Karnataka and Tamilnadu are the best example for this. Few people record some video and put it in internet with wrong caption. For example, people are beating up a robber after he is been caught in robbery. few people record this and put it in internet by putting the caption as racist people beating up innocent citizen. This will definitely foment the peace among people in community and might lead to public disputes.

However, there are also positive aspects of media and internet. Advent of media and technology has made the news accessible to almost everyone. People are more aware of what is happening around them. Those who are interested in music can only pay attention to what is going on in field of music. This applies to other fields like politics, business, sports etc. People now a days are able to focus on things that matter to them.

In summary, mass media and internet have caused the people's attention span to get shorter to some extent. But, result is not always positive. Media and people feeding internet should be careful before spreading any news.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 205, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'peoples'' or 'people's'?
Suggestion: peoples'; people's
...world. To some extent it has caused the peoples attention spans to get shorter. But, ov...
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Line 6, column 404, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Few
...ber after he is been caught in robbery. few people record this and put it in intern...
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Line 8, column 370, Rule ID: NOW_A_DAYS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'nowadays'?
Suggestion: nowadays
... politics, business, sports etc. People now a days are able to focus on things that matter...
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Line 8, column 374, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a day' or simply 'days'?
Suggestion: a day; days
...itics, business, sports etc. People now a days are able to focus on things that matter...
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Line 10, column 53, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'peoples'' or 'people's'?
Suggestion: peoples'; people's
...mass media and internet have caused the peoples attention span to get shorter to some e...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, for example, in addition, in summary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1884.0 2235.4752809 84% => OK
No of words: 379.0 442.535393258 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9709762533 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4542145123 2.79657885939 88% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 215.323595506 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.532981530343 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 594.9 704.065955056 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 23.0359550562 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 23.8447194305 60.3974514979 39% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 69.7777777778 118.986275619 59% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 14.037037037 23.4991977007 60% => More words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 2.92592592593 5.21951772744 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.365074431598 0.243740707755 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0948070102776 0.0831039109588 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0771047968956 0.0758088955206 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193465607474 0.150359130593 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0829082008705 0.0667264976115 124% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.0 14.1392134831 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 48.8420337079 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 12.1743820225 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.95 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 100.480337079 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.2143820225 68% => 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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