The number of words in a sentence on average in a broadsheet newspaper is more than in a magazine or tabloid newspaper.

Authors Avatar


Introduction

I am going to study the following three hypothesis and them make an attempt to prove them using raw data and different types of graphs

  1. The number of words in a sentence on average in a broadsheet newspaper is more than in a magazine or tabloid newspaper

  1. The percentage of space given up on average to pictures in a tabloid newspaper is more than in a broadsheet or magazine

  1. Headline length will be more in a tabloid than in a broadsheet or magazine

I am now going to study the above hypothesis in more detail

The number of words in a sentence on average in a broadsheet newspaper is more than in a magazine or tabloid newspaper

Broadsheet newspapers are read by more educated people than tabloid newspapers. There will be more words per sentence therefore in a broadsheet than a tabloid because the broadsheet reader will want to find out more about the subject matter. The more intelligent broadsheet reader will be able to understand more complex sentences. The magazine I will use is Kerrang magazine which is a rock music magazine aimed at 14-25 year olds. I predict that there will be more words per sentence in Kerrang than in a tabloid newspaper but less than in a broadsheet newspaper.

Join now!

To measure sentence length I am going to count the number of words per sentence in 30 sentences per newspaper/magazine. The data will be primary data collected by me. I will take thirty samples from each text because this will allow me to draw accurate conclusions.

Some possible problems that could arise are:

  1. The journalist who writes the article will have a different style to other journalists and so this will affect sentence length

  1. The subject of the article will affect sentence length. A story about celebrities will have shorter sentences than an article ...

This is a preview of the whole essay