Broadsheets use longer words than tabloids.
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Katie Sanderson 11L1 Maths Statistics Course Work Introduction There are many different newspapers; they range from tabloid papers to the broadsheet papers. Hypothesis One Broadsheets use longer words than tabloids Prediction I predict that broadsheets will tend to use longer words than a tabloid paper because the tabloids are a lighter read to the more involving descriptive broadsheet papers. Different newspapers are written to suit these preferences. In the tabloid papers the wording used is less profound and therefore is more easily understood. Method The data will be collected in samples of 100 words per article. One tabloid and one broadsheet paper will be chosen with similar stories to make this a fair test. The first and last 50 words of each article will be counted and recorded. The reason for using a 100-word sample is because this should give a good overall view to the word length in a section. The samples are political samples based on...


