Find out the differences between three major newspapers; The Independent, The Daily Mail, The Sun.

2004

Maths

Coursework

By Scott Volker

11P

Introduction:

In this piece of coursework, I have been working to try and find out the differences between three major newspapers. I decided to use the following newspapers; The Independent, The Daily Mail, The Sun. I chose these three newspapers because, The Independent is a broadsheet newspaper and gives a very detailed account of the article, The Daily Mail is a tabloid newspaper and gives a fairly detailed account of the article, and finally The Sun, this newspaper is a very popular newspaper with most people but gives a very brief account on the article.

For this coursework I brought all three newspapers on the same day and then used the same article, this would then give a fair result at the end.

The question I have asked for this piece of coursework is, to work out the various word lengths each newspaper article has. To do this I will select the first five paragraphs of each article and count the amount of letters in each word. I will record this data in a frequency table. From this table I will produce a five point summary which includes, mode median and mean. Then from this I will produce a box and whisker plot to show the inter quartile ranges for each newspaper.