Newspaper Comparison
My Resources
The resources I am using for this coursework are a tabloid paper, a
broadsheet paper, the tabloid paper is called the “News of the World”,
and the broadsheet paper is called “The Sunday Telegraph”. They both
are the same dates and they both have the same stories/information in
them.
Aim / Hypothesis
My aim is to take one 100-word article from a broadsheet newspaper and
a tabloid newspaper and compare their readability by seeing how the
sizes of the words vary. In addition, I will be comparing how many
paragraphs there are on the front page of each newspaper and I will be
comparing images per page up to five pages for both newspapers. These
three factors can make an impact on the type of person reading a
certain newspaper.
My Objectives
v To collect sufficient and reliable evidence for my results.
v Present my data in a meaningful way.
v To interpret and analyse results and diagrams.
v To write a conclusion and analysis on the results I have
acknowledged.
Method
I counted each letter in a word up to a 100 words and put my results
in a tally. I then counted how many paragraphs there were in each
article on the front page of each of the newspapers. In addition to
this, I then made a tally of how many images there were on the first
five pages of each newspaper.
Then I compared the results I had by drawing a box and whisker plot
and a cumulative frequency percentage graph.
The sizes of the words for a Tabloid paper
Letters per 100 words
(100 word article)
Frequency (Number of letters per word).
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Cumulative Frequency
Cumulative Frequency Percentage (%)
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