Analyse three different types of newspaper, for example one Broadsheet, one Tabloid and one Local Paper, to see which is the hardest to read.

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Introduction

In this project I am going to analyse three different types of newspaper, for example one Broadsheet, one Tabloid and one Local Paper, to see which is the hardest to read. I will do this by randomly selecting sentences in these newspapers and counting the words in each sentence. This should give me a results table about which news paper is the hardest to read as generally the more words in a sentence, the harder it is to read. I could also separate the sentences into different categories such as News, Entertainment and Sport. I must however buy my newspapers all on the same day as they will be more or less all oaring the same stories, therefore will be using the same sort of vocabulary. However, I must first do a pre-test. I will do this by randomly selecting 60 sentences from each paper and seeing if there is any difference in the results. I will randomly select the sentences by using the random button on my calculator. I will press it once to obtain the page number, and once again to obtain the sentence number.

Hypothesis

I predict that “The Sunday Telegraph will be the hardest to red simply because I have read all of them and believe that this newspaper was the hardest

Pre-test

News of the World

Median = halfway between 0 and 60

= 22

Lower Quartile = ¼ of 60 = 15th sentence

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= 12

Upper Quartile = ¾ of 60 = 45th sentence

= 80

The Sunday Telegraph

Median = Halfway between 0 and 60

= 30

Lower Quartile = ¼ of 60 = 15th sentence

= 25

Upper Quartile = ¾ of 60 = 45th sentence

=34

The Herald Express

Median = Halfway between 0 and 60

= 20

Lower Quartile = ¼ of 60 = 15th sentence

= 14

Upper Quartile = ¾ of 60 = 45th sentence

= ...

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