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 mass media and internet have been evolving with an astonishing rate which has lead to a lot of intended and unadverted implifications on our lives. It has definitely helped us retrieve more information about a topic we want to study but also given rise to a lot of distractions. However, I agree with the prompt and would like to state two reasons to bolster it.
The mass media and internet helps people to read news of a particular area, from a myriad range of topics right from politics to sports. This has lots of benefits since it helps people to remain updated about the latest news, form opinions about these topics and understand the nuances carefully. ALthough there is large amount of information about these topics, people are able to sort through the information they deem to be useful and neglect the rest. For example, parents read the newspaper to the child and only tell him the news he would be able to comprehend, like the simple sports section and not the obscure and confounding politics section. This way important information is being shared with attention intact to the child and helps to keep the child informed and at the same time attentive to his surrounding.
Since the advent of technological revolution, scientist have collected lot of data about all the experiments they have been working on from their previous years. This has resulted into a lot of data being generated in the form of research papers and journals. This clutered amount of data is enormous yet tyro scientists are able to peruse through this information quickly and extract the data they need to confirm their results or draw inferences from. Thus, people have been able to adapt to these issues wihich has resuted in lot of benefits such as increase in attention span, reading speed and the right mindset to navigate themselves to get the correct information
However, for childrena and kids these might result into deleterious effects since they get distarcted easily without the proper guidance. Children might not be able to cope with this "flood" of information and may get swayed into this labyrinth of information which could lead to loss of concentration, decrease in retentivity and sharp decline in attention span.
Thus there are advantages and disadvantages of this prompt which has been discussed. How we overcome the negatives and boost the advantages to our own benefits, is what will determine how well we are going to be able to handle this.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, thus, well, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.3162921348 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2061.0 2235.4752809 92% => OK
No of words: 417.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94244604317 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73411164172 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 215.323595506 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525179856115 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 638.1 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => 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: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.7640901675 60.3974514979 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.4 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8 23.4991977007 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 5.21951772744 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198762397202 0.243740707755 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0664549206262 0.0831039109588 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0527334412034 0.0758088955206 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104210705543 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0397272960358 0.0667264976115 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.8420337079 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.1743820225 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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