In this piece of coursework I will compare two newspaper articles to see if the type of newspaper affects the length of words and the length of sentences. To do this I will compare a broadsheet newspaper and a tabloid newspaper.
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14-12-2002 Ben Johnson 10D Data Handling Coursework Introduction In this piece of coursework I will compare two newspaper articles to see if the type of newspaper affects the length of words and the length of sentences. To do this I will compare a broadsheet newspaper and a tabloid newspaper. The papers I will compare are: The Sunday Telegraph for the broadsheet paper and The News of the World for the tabloid paper. Hypotheses * I believe that broadsheet newspapers are harder to read than tabloid newspapers. * I believe that broadsheet newspapers give greater detail of events, using more complicated vocabulary and sentence structure, whereas a tabloid newspaper gives shorter, lighter versions of events using shorter words. To show this I believe broadsheet papers will have more letters on average per word and greater length sentences per article than tabloid newspapers, therefore making it more complicated to read than tabloid papers. Planning ...

