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 statement raises a variety of issues about mass media and the Internet. One school of thought postulates that mass media has worsened the human' s ability to focus on a task for a long time. Another school of thought posits that, even if this is true, mass media is beneficial to the human mind on the grounds that it has promoted the human' s ability to discern important facts from the vast amounts of information that are available. As far as I am concerned, I agree with the latter for the following reasons.
The first thing that springs to mind is that, in the contemporary society, citizens are inundated with information. To illustrate this, let us consider a citizen's typical day, in which he receives numerous emails and newsletters, he reads news on social media and, finally, he can find answers to any question that he has with a simple click in a google search. Common sense informs me that it is impossible to read thoroughly the information from all these sources in a society where free time is limited. Thus, people have developed indispensable techniques to distinguish the important facts rather than getting lost in the ocean of data.
Another issue I would like to focus on is that, thanks to the Internet and the vast amount of available data, people get wiser. A case in point would be a resident of a small, distant community, who learns about politicians, scientists, artists and musicians in other parts of the world through accessing web pages. It strikes me that the dominance of the Internet propels equality and works towards establishing the right to objective information.
A compelling argument against mass media would underscore that they cause attention spans to become shorter. Few would disagree that young people, who were born in the digital age, have learnt to absorb short pieces of information quickly through their smartphones instead of focusing to read a long article and understand a specific issue in depth. Nevertheless, since long attention spans can be developed at school and university, the argument of mass media detractors cannot cancel the benefits that mass media and the Internet offer to the society.
In conclusion, even if mass media jeopardizes people's ability to focus, the advantages that it presents outweigh the disadvantages. Given the increasing Internet penetration rates, equality and knowledge will be enhanced in societies.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 153, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a citizen' or simply 'citizens'?
Suggestion: a citizen; citizens
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, nevertheless, so, thus, in conclusion
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 : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2014.0 2235.4752809 90% => OK
No of words: 397.0 442.535393258 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07304785894 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81081677638 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.556675062972 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 621.0 704.065955056 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.2909562564 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.875 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8125 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5625 5.21951772744 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
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: 0.255329516742 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0820165761343 0.0831039109588 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0573400660869 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131318256288 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0392317788699 0.0667264976115 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 100.480337079 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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