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I selected two articles from different newspapers - one from a broadsheet (The Daily Telegraph) and another from a tabloid (The Sun). Both articles are on the same topic. I am trying to find out which article, if either, requires a higher reading age
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Maths Comparison Coursework Introduction I selected two articles from different newspapers - one from a broadsheet (The Daily Telegraph) and another from a tabloid (The Sun). Both articles are on the same topic. I am trying to find out which article, if either, requires a higher reading age by working out which tends to use longer words and longer sentences and, using these measures, calculate the FOG reading ages. Hypothesis 1: Word Length Task First, I am going to work out which article tends to use longer words. Plan and Hypothesis I am going to record the number of letters in each of the first 100 words in both articles. I will not count numbers written as figures as words and I will ignore abbreviations like "e.g." and "etc." However, I will count words with a hyphen between them as separate words. I predict that the word lengths will be longer in the broadsheet as it...
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