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.

Has the overall effect of mass media and internet been positive? While some people believe that mass media and internet might have caused people's attention spans to get shorter, most of the people believe that the overall effect of mass media and internet has been positive. I believe that mass media and internet has enhanced our ability to sort through large quantities of information and find what's important and has had a positive effect.

One of the chief reasons for my fundamental agreement with the author is that the large quantities of information that the internet provides us gives us different perspectives on the same issue and allows us to analyze an issue thoroughly. For instance, if the topic is debatable, say we are deciding on a mobile phone to be bought and want to compare various phones as to which is better. There might be different explanations for the different sides of the topic. Thus, we can weigh both sides after understanding their explanations and decide wisely according to our requirements on which phone to buy. Decision making becomes better with the help of internet. Thus, the effect of mass media and internet has been positive.

Another reason for my view is that mass media allows us to go through large chunks of information in short and interesting videos. For instance, if we are looking for a tutorial on machine learning, there are long documentations and research papers available. But the information in these text documents are better explained in a simple manner in videos posted by experts around the world. Thus, we are able to go through large chunks of information in short amount of time and find what's important.

Some might argue that because of the internet people are less able to focus on one thing. Yet people are able to focus on the important things rather than focusing on each and every thing. After weighing both sides, we can conclude that the effect of mass media and internet has been positive overall.

For all the above reasons, I believe that the effect of Mass Media and Internet has been positive overall.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, look, so, thus, while, as to, for instance, in short

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1740.0 2235.4752809 78% => OK
No of words: 355.0 442.535393258 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9014084507 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58035549436 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 215.323595506 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.450704225352 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 552.6 704.065955056 78% => 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: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.5250265398 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.352941176 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8823529412 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.58823529412 5.21951772744 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.405319203878 0.243740707755 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136239870436 0.0831039109588 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.117800488159 0.0758088955206 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.226538425241 0.150359130593 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.132148164227 0.0667264976115 198% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 100.480337079 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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