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 larg

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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.

Internet is a major invention recent years. It has completely changed the lifestyle of people. Earlier, major source of information used to be either newspapers or radio or television but now a days people are over-dependent on internet, mass media and social media. Now-a-days, people are not able to survive without internet and social media even for a day, they keep themselves available and connected with internet all the time. Internet is huge pool of information and knowledge, all the information is available there on internet and even the latest information is updated immediately on internet.

Since, people feel their day to be shorter, they spend lot of time in traffic, travelling, shopping and other things, they feel they are left with very less time. Thus, they tend to save time from each activity they do. For example, In older times, people used to spend hours reading the news-papers, but now people use mobile applications like In-Shorts, Google-News etc which brief them about all the recent stories immediately. Therefore, people have become habitual of spending less time over an activity and they just can't focus on one thing for longer, making their attention span shorter.

However, Like any other invention, internet has its own pros and cons. People have learnt to extract the related or interested
and important information from the ocean of knowledge. In few minutes, they are able to get updated with all recent stories of the world. Nevertheless, though it makes them updated with all the information in shorter time and it has become easier for them to take out significant information from flush of information available, they don't get to know about the things in deep, they miss the profound knowledge on any topic which is somewhat not expected. There is a saying, "Half knowledge is always dangerous".

Conclusively, internet and mass media has great impact on people and their lifestyle in both good as well bad ways. One side, people have become faster to go through huge data and bring out the important knowledge from it, knowing more things in shorter span, on the other side, people's attention span or capability of focusing on one thing is degraded. They don't have information but not the knowledge about any topic. The have become "master of none, but jack of all" which is also not desired.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 189, Rule ID: NOW_A_DAYS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'nowadays'?
Suggestion: nowadays
...r newspapers or radio or television but now a days people are over-dependent on internet, ...
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Line 3, column 524, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...ess time over an activity and they just cant focus on one thing for longer, making t...
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Line 5, column 127, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rnt to extract the related or interested and important information from the ocean...
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Line 6, column 336, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...om flush of information available, they dont get to know about the things in deep, t...
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Line 8, column 360, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...focusing on one thing is degraded. They dont have information but not the knowledge ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, in short

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 12.4196629213 0% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.3162921348 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1981.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 389.0 442.535393258 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09254498715 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74763547987 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501285347044 0.4932671777 102% => 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: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.7442034516 60.3974514979 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.055555556 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6111111111 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.77777777778 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.347035529427 0.243740707755 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105927010777 0.0831039109588 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0757933375737 0.0758088955206 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189171126629 0.150359130593 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0674058846102 0.0667264976115 101% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 100.480337079 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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