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 topic raises an issue of whether mass media and the internet have caused people's attention span to get shorter. It compensates by saying that it also has a positive effect, where people can go through large amount of information and find what is important. I agree with author's point, but this does not apply to every human being and every field of study. It is illustrated below.
First of all, some fields cannot prosper without having people with great attention to details skill. For instance, In the field of consulting, where people help their clients to grow their business, there is very less room of error. So, in this case consulting firms prefer people who have not been influenced by mass media and internet and has great attention span. In the field of research too, scientists and researchers should have great attention span to achieve success in their field of study. Consequently, it is pretty obvious that in these jobs, employees are more focused in what they do and hence are not influenced by mass media and internet.
Furthermore, mass media and internet has made some students very complacent. Our generation has done project in the last minute as they know can get large amount of information from the internet from which they can copy and score marks as compared to previous generation, who used to ready books to get knowledge and then apply the knowledge in their projects. In this case internet surely has a detrimental effect in the thinking process of a student. It is a very common saying in engineering colleges, that people study in last minute. This is due to the advancement of internet which has caused students to study their subjects via internet not in much details but enough to score decent marks in the exams. Hence all the evidence above indicate that mass media and internet surely has been a bane for the students.
Admittedly, advancement of mass media and internet has made life easy, where people can get large information in just few clicks which in turn saves a lot of time. People also learn so much via internet which they cannot learn in the classroom because of the common curriculum of the school for all the students. But this does not negate the effects of the mass media and internet which are more detrimental than advantageous.
In conclusion, mass media mass media and internet has surely helped in saving time to find the information and apply in our daily lives, but it also has made our generation complacent, which can surely have detrimental effect on students thinking skills.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: many
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Suggestion: Hence,
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Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'mass media'.
Suggestion: mass media
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, furthermore, hence, if, so, then, for instance, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2123.0 2235.4752809 95% => OK
No of words: 437.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85812356979 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.527685514 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 215.323595506 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.439359267735 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 647.1 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.6741251268 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.736842105 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.63157894737 5.21951772744 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.315746109388 0.243740707755 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107828431298 0.0831039109588 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0762124817668 0.0758088955206 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189056179213 0.150359130593 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0537570147402 0.0667264976115 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 100.480337079 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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