Maths Statistics Coursework
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GCSE Coursework Maths Statistics 14/2/05 Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2 2) Hypothesis 2 3) Method 2 4) Results 4 a) First article 4 b) Second article 7 c) Third article 10 d) Fourth article 13 e) Summary 16 5) Conclusion 19 1) Introduction For this assignment I was asked to compare the readability of articles from two newspapers: a tabloid; and a broadsheet. I selected four pairs of articles and each pair had to cover the same story. I selected the Observer and the Sunday Express as my two newspapers. 2) Hypothesis I predicted that the tabloid articles would be easier to read than those in the broadsheet as I believed they would contain shorter words which more people would understand 3) Method To evaluate the readability I compared words from four articles from each newspaper. I selected four articles from the broadsheet then found an article in the tabloid for each that covered the same story. From each article I selected thirty words using the following method: I studied the articles I had selected in each newspaper and noted that neither had more than thirty paragraphs and every paragraph had at...


