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Comparison between tabloid and broadsheet newspapers.  

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MATHS COURSEWORK - Comparison between tabloid and broadsheet newspapers INTRODUCTION This coursework was about comparing two newspapers, which in this case are broadsheet and tabloid for readability. To compare these two newspapers properly, we must depend on two things; which is word length and sentence length. The longer the word and the longer the sentence, the more sophisticated the newspaper. HYPOTHESIS I think that the reading difficulty should increase in the broadsheet newspaper than the tabloid newspaper since it has longer words along with longer sentences. Broadsheet newspapers contain longer words and sentences since they are aimed at a more sophisticated audience. HOW SAMPLING WAS DONE In the sampling we used two 'types' of newspapers; tabloid and broadsheet. We randomly selected 4 pages from each newspaper by using the random button on our CASIO calculator. We continued to press the equal's button until we got a suitable page number. When we did, we once again used...

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