Mass media and the internet have caused people's attention span 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.
I completely agree with the assertion in the claim, that Mass media and the internet have caused people's attention span to get shorter. People have a habit to get information from multiple sources and use only that source or a part of information which looks authentic.
In earlier days let’s say in 1900 to 2000 the news channels and the newspapers are the only sources to update the knowledge about world. In those times only some certain news channels are in the business. For Example, in India DD News, DD Sahyadri, DD Sports and many other Door Darshan's channels are the major news channels along with some local news channels were only in the business. In those days these channels used to telecast updated news only at specific times in a day. So news hungry people managed there routine to see the news telecasts. Since news were getting updated at only particular times, the whole updated news took more than a day or day and half to reach to people. This has happened because very few people chose their career path in this news business. So lack of staff in news channels caused the delay in further processes. Also since shortage of staff and less interest in reporting people news channels were not able to gather data about news from different parts of society. So like to ask people's views about victory in the recent cricket match reporters just used to ask people who were present in the stadium. This seems logical because it was not possible at that time, to go in each and every area and ask about victory in the cricket match.
Now a day, the mass media and internet have caused a revolution in the news. Both of these are very much dependable on each other. Abundance of devices to capture the situation and platforms to expose it, increase in the number of reporters and number of news channels; all of these have definitely changed the earlier situation. Almost all of the news channels have their web sites and they are equally active on the internet as well as on the television reporting what is happening in mass media, bulletins etc. People do not have to wait for a specific time to watch news. The era of internet has solved that problem. Also there is a great staff response in each and every news channels, results into speeding up the news telecasting process.
Now a day, there are many android, windows and ios apps, which only give updates in the form of mass media as well bulletins. So a normal person can keep update about world time to time. Obviously this vast and variety of mass media and internet will not help people to focus on one thing. For example, business news channel will keep update of national, international businesses more than other news like sports or any crime in the city. Though there are many sources of mass media and internet their discreetness caused people to find what is important for them. The sports hungry people can search many past, present as well as future events about sports in a matter time.
This variety of information and discreetness in each news as well as responses recorded and posted on the internet can create confusion in people heads. Not for all news, but recordings and postings of controversial or critical information, will definitely cause confusion. For example, the 26th July rainfall damage in Mumbai will not cause in controversies because almost everyone has suffered from that damage, but the news like scams in government or the match fixing in the cricket created confusion in people head. This confusion arises because of the recordings or postings were not leading to same facts. So until an authentic action or actual legal inquiry recordings and postings were not published the people were in dilemma.
In sum, the mass media and internet have surely caused people's attention span to get shorter, by getting updates about various matters in the world in a matter of time. But people should also be aware before coming to any decision regarding the information they are obtaining from mass media and internet. The examples presented, have shown concern about the matter authenticity of data.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'look', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'for example', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.313878080415 0.240241500013 131% => OK
Verbs: 0.130998702983 0.157235817809 83% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0700389105058 0.0880659088768 80% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0544747081712 0.0497285424764 110% => OK
Pronouns: 0.011673151751 0.0444667217837 26% => Some pronouns wanted.
Prepositions: 0.136186770428 0.12292977631 111% => OK
Participles: 0.0337224383917 0.0406280797675 83% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.42725307062 2.79330140395 87% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0285343709468 0.030933414821 92% => OK
Particles: 0.00129701686122 0.0016655270985 78% => OK
Determiners: 0.10635538262 0.0997080785238 107% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0103761348898 0.0249443105267 42% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0064850843061 0.0148568991511 44% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 4117.0 2732.02544248 151% => OK
No of words: 709.0 452.878318584 157% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.80677009873 6.0361032391 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.16014088096 4.58838876751 112% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.327221438646 0.366273622748 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.231311706629 0.280924506359 82% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.163610719323 0.200843997647 81% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0916784203103 0.132149295362 69% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42725307062 2.79330140395 87% => OK
Unique words: 303.0 219.290929204 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.42736248237 0.48968727796 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 53.895303428 55.4138127331 97% => OK
How many sentences: 34.0 20.6194690265 165% => OK
Sentence length: 20.8529411765 23.380412469 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8120353489 59.4972553346 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.088235294 141.124799967 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8529411765 23.380412469 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.294117647059 0.674092028746 44% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 43.9841118394 51.4728631049 85% => OK
Elegance: 2.45394736842 1.64882698954 149% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.34130017548 0.391690518653 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.11695829523 0.123202303941 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0949520326772 0.077325440228 123% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.506240101047 0.547984918172 92% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.124951591493 0.149214159877 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.133365498421 0.161403998019 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.078058486082 0.0892212321368 87% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.380376991754 0.385218514788 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.092333761696 0.0692045440612 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.25702126091 0.275328986314 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0600815494973 0.0653680567796 92% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.30420353982 151% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.88274336283 246% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 8.0 2.70907079646 295% => OK
Total topic words: 23.0 13.5995575221 169% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Less content wanted. Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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