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GCSE MATHEMATICS COURSEWORK: Investigating the readability of newspapers I am going to investigate the readability of three different types of newspaper. The three I will be comparing are: A tabloid, a broadsheet and a quality newspaper. I will compare these in a number of ways and by collecting a great deal of information from each paper. I will count the percentage of a page devoted to certain things (e.g. pictures, news etc), the length of sentences and the length of words within sentences. All of this will be done using a series of random and stratified samples in order to get an average for each paper. By obtaining all of this information from a cross-section of each paper, I will be able to see the kind of audience that specific papers appeal to. Every piece of information I collect will be done so in a certain way. The newspapers I have chosen...

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