Investigating Newspapers
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Investigating Newspapers Plan I will be investigating the readability of 3 newspapers by comparison. These newspapers are: * The Sun (tabloid) * The Daily Telegraph (broadsheet) * Daily Mail (quality) I am using these three newspapers because they provide a variety of styles of newspaper. I will be investigating the: * Word length (letters) * Sentence length (words) * Article length (sentences) In each news paper I will choose three articles to focus on these points with - a sport article, a headline article, and a mid-paper article. I will be comparing the papers by using: mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and box and whisker diagrams along with upper quartiles, lower quartiles and interquartile ranges. Prediction I think that the broadsheet (The Daily Telegraph) will turn out to have larger article lengths, sentence length, and word length. So in this order of readability (where number one is the most readable): 1. The Daily Telegraph (broadsheet) 2. Daily Mail (quality) 3. The Sun (tabloid) I think this because...


