01.11.2017
At present, the media affects people’s lives significantly. What impact does this have on the society? Is it a negative or a positive development?
Today a few individuals would argue against the idea the media has a great influence on the public. Below a closer look will be taken at the impact and its consequences for the society as well as whether this is an advantageous development or not.
To begin with, television, the radio, newspapers, magazines and such internet services as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram appear to be shaping people’s value system by steering their attention to one issue or another one. This is a great power because citizens’ understanding of normal conduct could be altered. To illustrate, ten years ago the media mostly ignored the theme of gender inequality; in fact, for many decades it was a normal practice to pay women less than men for doing the same job. But now, when this theme was put in a light spot, it has become unacceptable, and females’ salaries started to grow steadily. Furthermore, the mass media helps folks to control actions and decisions made by government structures. If there was no media, politicians and other officials would have unchecked power. For instance, till recently public was not aware of an American military presence in Niger, only after reporters had started to ask inconvenient questions, congresspeople began to investigate the actions of military personnel in the foreign country. Apparently, without the media, governments might have acted more ruthlessly and unreasonably than they do today. Those are examples of the media impact on the society.
However, there is a necessity to decide whether this influence is positive or not. On the one hand, the effect is benevolent because the society is being developed in a right direction and many painful issues that have been ignored for a long time are being addressed. Moreover, limiting freedom of government, holding it responsible for the decisions made are extremely important for functioning a healthy society. On the other hand, the media may be easily turned into a means of propaganda that is used by the powerful to distract people from really important and vital issues or to create an appearance of chaos and an impending catastrophe to force citizens to act in a certain way. Those some are instances of a negative effect. In other words, the trend has both advantages and disadvantages.
To sum up, although the media may be used to manipulate folks, the benefits definitely outweigh drawbacks because the press raises people’s awareness about urgent issues, problems and does not allow a government to act irresponsibly.
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Essay evaluation report
Below a closer look will be taken at the impact
Below a closer look at the impact will be taken
that is used by the powerful to distract people
that is used by the power to distract people
flaws:
less content wanted. examples are over average.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 412 350
No. of Characters: 2054 1500
No. of Different Words: 241 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.505 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.985 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.809 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 143 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 85 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.889 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.661 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.722 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.281 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.445 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.018 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
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To illustrate, ten years ago the media mostly ignored the theme of gender inequality; in fact, for many decades it was a normal practice to pay women less than men for doing the same job. But now, when this theme was put in a light spot, it has become unacceptable, and females’ salaries started to grow steadily.
For instance, till recently public was not aware of an American military presence in Niger, only after reporters had started to ask inconvenient questions, congresspeople began to investigate the actions of military personnel in the foreign country. Apparently, without the media, governments might have acted more ruthlessly and unreasonably than they do today.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, furthermore, however, if, look, may, moreover, really, so, well, for instance, in fact, as well as, in other words, to begin with, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 13.1623246493 175% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2135.0 1615.20841683 132% => OK
No of words: 412.0 315.596192385 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18203883495 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50530610838 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98945088904 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 176.041082164 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.599514563107 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 684.9 506.74238477 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.7772617105 49.4020404114 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.611111111 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8888888889 20.7667163134 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.77777777778 7.06120827912 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184313814495 0.244688304435 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0566754188579 0.084324248473 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0363219236209 0.0667982634062 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110637315949 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0122931107249 0.056905535591 22% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 78.4519038076 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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