Whether Broadsheet Newspapers Have Longer Words than Tabloids

Whether Broadsheet Newspapers Have Longer Words than Tabloids

Hypothesis

My hypothesis is that broadsheet newspapers do have longer words than

tabloid newspaers. Some broadsheet newspapers include

· The Times

· The Gaurdian

· The Independant

These kinds of newspapers are usually associated with business men and

higher class. Tabloid newspapers include

· The Mirror

· The Sun

These newspapers have more gossip, so they are usually associated with

lower class. This is the reason why I think broadsheets have longer

words than tabloids, because the broadsheets target market is educated

people.

Strategy

My strategy for this investigation is to choose two different

newspapers, these will be The Gaurdian and the Mirror. I will use

random sampling when choosing an article from each newspaper. I will

do this by opening the paper at a random page, I will then drop a coin

and the article the coin lands on will be the article I use for my

sample. Then I am going to count the number of letters in the first

100 words, I will not be counting names, this is because some names

may be quite long and they could mess up my results.

To help me with my investigaton I am going to use the data handling

cycle below.

Specify the problem and plan

Collect data from a

variety of sources

Interpret and discuss data

Process and represent data

After I have collected my data I will be analysing it using bar

charts, mean, mode, median, range, circumulative frequency,

interquartile range, box plots and pie charts.

Results

I have collected my results from an article in the Guardian and the

Mirror.

The Gaurdian (broadsheet)

number of letters in words Total

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