Authorship of a Text
Introduction:
Tabloid and broadsheet newspapers are both aimed at different
audiences. This, therefore, means that they are written differently to
correspond with the audience that they are aimed at. Tabloid
newspapers supposedly give an easier read than a broadsheet newspaper
and this is what this investigation will prove.
Aim:
The aim of this piece of coursework is to gain information about
text=authorship">authorship of a text using statistical measures. I will collect data
from a population with a view to estimating population parameters
(e.g. mean & variance) by using estimation techniques from the
previous module.
The task will involve taking a random sample, expressing my results in
various forms appropriate to the work also calculating and comparing
confidence intervals.
Prediction:
I predict that after counting the letters in sample words from both a
tabloid and a broadsheet newspaper, that I will find that the
broadsheet newspaper has longer words overall because it is aimed at a
more educated audience. This then means that the tabloid will have a
shorter mean word length making it an easier read for the audience
that it is aimed at.
The population being used is a random sample of word lengths from both
a tabloid newspaper and a broadsheet newspaper. When collecting the
data, people's names, place names, numbers and hyphenated words will
not be included in the results. A sample of 50 words will be taken
from the second page of each paper, containing political news, and
also from the last and second last pages of each paper, containing
sporting news. This will allow me to gain and appropriate and fairer
sample and will mean that it is less susceptible to bias.
The two newspaper being used are the "The Sun" and "The Guardian."
My sample is a random sample and has been obtained by using the random
number generator on my calculator. This allowed me to choose
particular words, at random, and then count the number of letters
within each.
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Comparing Two Newspaper Articles I'll be comparing the front page story of two newspapers. One is from a tabloid newspaper, as the other is from a broadsheet. I'll put across the. the diverse techniques that tabloids and broadsheets portray in their front page story. Newspaper media is designated to notify, and aim an.
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