The Average Length of Words From Two Newspapers
This is an investigation to compare the average length of words from
two different newspapers, i.e. The Guardian and The Sun. One newspaper
has to be a broadsheet and the other has to be a tabloid.
Aim 1
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This is to find out which midweek newspapers have longer average word
lengths and the age range the particular newspaper is aimed at. To
find the reading age of the newspaper I will be following this
formula: -
This formula is to find out the reading age of a passage of writing.
Flesch Reading Ease score
Rates text on a 100-point scale; the higher the score, the easier it
is to understand the document. For most standard documents, aim for a
score of approximately 60 to 70.
The formula for the Flesch Reading Ease score is:
206.835 - (1.015 x ASL) - (84.6 x ASW)
Where:
ASL = average sentence length (the number of words divided by the
number of sentences)
ASW = average number of syllables per word (the number of syllables
divided by the number of words)
Hypothesis
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I will be using The Guardian (Broadsheet) and The Sun (Tabloid). I
believe that the guardian will be set at more intellectual readers and
that the words will be much larger than those of The Sun. The guardian
is a much larger paper and The Sun seems to be less in depth.
Statistics
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Number of words in sample from each newspaper = 300
The Sun;
Word Length
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Amount
13
41
66
41
33
39
28
26
11
2
2
I am going to record the number of letters in each of the first 100
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