Investigating Tabloid and Broadsheet Newspapers

Investigating Tabloid and Broadsheet Newspapers

To investigate what type of people read which newspaper, the reading

age of the material in the newspaper, and the average word of the

article in the newspaper.

Hypothesis:

To investigate what type of people read which paper, I will do a

survey. In the survey I will try to find out what their occupation is

, their age, and what newspaper they read.

T o investigate the reading age I will use the "Gunning Fog Index"

readability test, I also tried the "Flesch Readability Test". And then

decided which test was more accurate, and suitable for the result I

needed.

To find the average word length I took the first 100 words of an

article and made a tally chart of the word length. Then I took the

total a divided is by the number of words in the paragraph (100), this

gave me the average word length. From these results I made a box and

wiskes plot, a cumalative frequency chart, and graph. For my

investigation I will be using "The SUN" which is a tabloid newspaper

and "The Daily Telegraph" which is a broadsheet newspaper.

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Text Box: Fog Index 1. Count the number of words in the paragraph. (W). 2. Count the number of sentences in the paragraph. (S). 3. Count the number of hard words of three syllables of more. (HW). 4. Apply the following formula: (W/S+HW/W×100)×0.4 The fog Index test gives you the number of years of education that your reader needs to understand the text.

Results

First I will do the word length test for the tabloid newspaper ( The

SUN), I chose the Harry Potter article to do the test on.

Word Length

Tally

Total

Cumalative Frequency

1

I I

2

2

2

IIII IIII IIII III

18

20

3

IIII IIII IIII IIII I

21

41

4

IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII I