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
a story does not fit in with their agenda they do not print it and
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the front page, it also has 1 or 2 images on the front page and
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ways as I have explained in this essay. It is a fact that The Mirror
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