Investigation to find if a tabloid paper gives a more
Introduction There are many different newspapers; they range from tabloid papers to the broadsheet papers. The tabloids are a lighter read to the more involving descriptive broadsheet papers. Different newspapers are written to suit these preferences. In the tabloid papers the wording used is less profound and therefore more easily understood. Aim To find if a tabloid paper gives a more "easier" read than a broadsheet paper Predictions A broadsheet paper will have more letters on average per word than a tabloid paper. Objectives 1.To collect data on number of letter per word in two papers. 2.To present data in a meaningful way 3.To interpret and analyze results and diagrams 4.To draw conclusions on analysis, state whether the prediction is correct. Method The data will be collected in-groups as this saves time. Every fourth word in a report will have the numbers of letters counted in it. This should give a good overall view to the word length in a section. Similar sections from each newspaper will be counted as to keep it fair. For example sports will be counted from newspapers, so will economics and politics. This is to give an overall view of the newspapers and so not just one area is studied. From each section the same number of words will be used to keep the investigation fair. Evaluation and results Report = Politics/Front Page The Times:
psycology- short term memory
Psychology assignment On short term memory The Memory Game This investigation was carried out on my own and a ten year olds Short Term Memory. Ten flash cards were selected from a flash card pack, hence it was a non acoustic, non semantic, non phonetic test. The first test carried out after a quick glance at the words, later both individuals looked at the cards for a minute covered them and wrote down what could be remembered. Soon after that we had a five minute rest, and tried to remember the words again. The objective of this assignment is to see whose memory functions better and to see which method has succeeded in getting the short term memory into long term memory. This investigation is based on Baddeley (1966), within his study, he tested the STM, participants were asked to recall the words immediately. Long Term Memory participants were asked to recall the words after a timed delay. Method: A child between the age of 6 and 12 was selected, in this case a 10 year old boy, M was selected. Ten random word cards were selected from a flash card pack. Individuals saw the cards at a quick glance, the card were then covered, and then they wrote down all the words they could remember. The process was repeated but this time, individuals could observe the cards for one minute, using a stop watch. Again, the cards were covered then individuals wrote all the words that could
The aim of this coursework is to compare the word and sentence length of an adults and a child's book. The results should reflect a higher level of difficulty in the adult's book.
The Normal Distribution Design The aim of this coursework is to compare the word and sentence length of an adults and a child's book. The results should reflect a higher level of difficulty in the adult's book. The strategies that I will be using are simple. I am going to take a sample of word and sentence lengths from both books. I will be taking two sets of both these measures for each book. To make it a fair and reliable the samples will be random. The main objective of the coursework is to demonstrate the difficulty of an adult's book compared to a child's book. If the word and sentence length of the adult's book is longer by a reasonable amount I will judge that the adults is more difficult. The population that I will be using is two fiction books chosen from a library. One book was selected from the adult's section and one from the child's. The adult's book is called 'The Regeneration Trilogy' by 'Pat Barker'. The child's book is called 'The Borrowers Afloat' by 'Mary Norton'. To obtain our sample we decided to do each measure separately. We firstly took the word length from the child's book followed by the word length of the adults. First of all we randomly selected a page in the child's book using the 'Random Number Generator' on a calculator. Once we had our page we randomly selected a line on the page using the same method. We now had our starting
Compare two different newspapers in two different manners.
GCSE Mathematics Coursework Specify and Plan The aim of this coursework is to compare two different newspapers in two different manners. The first option in which I will be comparing them is to see how many words are in a sentence, and then cover parts of each newspaper with this scheme. First I shall pick two newspapers, one shall be a broadsheet and one shall be a tabloid. Then, I shall pick an article from each newspaper. I would need to have picked the same articles as it would be unfair if I chose different articles. The papers must be bought on the same day, with the same date on each paper. I will then find the articles I require, and then do the tasks that I have been set. The information from the same articles on each paper and should be counted equally, and accurate as possible. Hypothesis: My prediction of this project is that the tabloid paper (The Sun) shall revile that it has less words per sentence than the broadsheet (The Daily Mail) on average. I came to this prediction because in my opinion, lower class, less knowledgeable people read tabloid papers. This way, the newspaper producers will use fewer words, and this will appeal to their most basic instincts. On the other hand, more professional people read broadsheets as they prefer to read the articles written by the newspaper. The two papers I shall be using to do my project are: The Sun
I am going to investigate the readability of two newspapers. Readability is how easy something is to read.
Newspaper Comparisons Aims I am going to investigate the readability of two newspapers. Readability is how easy something is to read. Plan For this investigation I will collect two types of data, one grouped and one ungrouped. The grouped data I will collect will be "Words per Sentence". I will be collecting this because I think that if a sentence has lots of words in it, it will be harder to read than a sentence which only has a few words per sentence, and this means it would be able to show the difference in readability between my newspapers. The ungrouped data I will collect will be "Letters per Word". I think this data will represent the readability because of the fact that a larger word would be harder to read than a word which is only a few words. The two newspapers I will be collecting my data from will be two newspapers that I think are written for different readers with different readabilities. I will collect the data from a broadsheet newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, and a tabloid newspaper, The Daily Mail. The difference between tabloid and broadsheet newspapers is that broadsheets are aimed at more sophisticated readers while tabloids are written to less sophisticated readers. Before collecting all the data for my investigation I will carry out a Pre-test just to make sure there is a difference in the newspapers I have chosen and that I wont be doing this
maximum length of rectangles and volume
Conclusion When I began this take of trying to find out the maximum length of rectangles in different my initial task was simply to find a formula to relate to the rectangles. To solve the problem I used computer programmes such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word to present the data and my findings. I initially chose to work with squares 8x8, 9x9, 13x13, and 25x25 for the simple fact that I was looking for some connection between all types of squares. When I used the computer I headed my columns on my spreadsheets as follows: Side1 (length), Side2 (width), Cut out, Length, Width, Height, Volume. I used these in this order to try and determine the formula and maximum cut out length for each type of square and rectangle. To work out different volumes I used different formulas. I worked out these formulae by simple trial and error. This did take some time but eventually came out more accurate. I worked with different numbers (such as, a whole number, to 1 decimal place, to 2 decimal places and to 3decimal places) to make the maximum cut out lengths more accurate when dealing with decimal places. I could have made it even more accurate by doing it to 4 decimal places by 3decimal places was only necessary to be drawing conclusions for this assignment. I noticed that when I found out the maximum size volumes for both squares and rectangles that the bigger the square the
In this investigation I am going to choose 4 different newspapers. I am going to analyse these newspapers for the link between the cost of the newspaper and the amount of advertisements in the newspaper.
Introduction In this investigation I am going to choose 4 different newspapers. I am going to analyse these newspapers for the link between the cost of the newspaper and the amount of advertisements in the newspaper. I am going to analyse the links between whether the weekend or the weekday editions of each newspaper differ in price or in the amount of advertisements. My aim for this investigation is to find which newspaper, and at what time in the week is the best value for someone who wanted a paper with a lot of ads, to make the investigation fair I am also not going to include any pullouts or magazines when I am counting the amount of ads in each paper. This is because all the newspapers have an equal advantage and the same amount of standard space as each other I am going to analyse 4 papers, (2 tabloids and 2 broadsheets) for 1 weekday edition, and for 1 weekend edition. This will help me to get the average, mean etc for each paper to make the analysis fair, because one of the broadsheets could have more ads than the rest on average. That is the reason for choosing 2 tabloids and 2 broadsheets. I already know that it would be unfair to measure the papers content of ads on the amount of space they cover as broadsheets will cover more, so I am going to measure that amount of ads on how many single ads there is, not the area that they cover. The four newspapers I am
Compare the readability of articles from two newspapers - a tabloid and a broadsheet
Maths Coursework 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 Sun' and 'The Independent' as my two newspapers. Hypothesis I predicted that the tabloid articles would be easier to read as I believe they would contain shorter words which more people would understand. 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: From each paragraph, words were selected in multiple of five. The first word selected was the fifth, the second word the tenth, the third word the fifteenth and so on. Results The following paragraphs show the results I obtained for each article pair. For each article I have provided a tally chart of word lengths, a graph showing a comparison between the pair of articles and any observations I made. Also I calculated the averages. First article The article in the broadsheet was titled "EU set for troublesome week ahead" and contained twenty paragraphs. The article in the tabloid was titled "EU better not" and contained nineteen paragraphs. The
Investigation into how broadsheet newspapers word length differs from tabloids.
Mathematics Coursework Investigation into how broadsheet newspapers word length differs from tabloids. What I am going to investigate. The subject into which I will be investigating will be whether or how the word length differs between tabloid and broadsheet newspapers I will be taking a sample containing equal number of words from both a tabloid and a broadsheet newspaper. Fairness and Reliability To keep my results fair and reliable I will need to do several things . I will need to clearly define which newspapers I consider to be tabloid and broadsheet to avoid any confusion. 2. I will need to randomly sample newspapers so that I am not just comparing the same two publications 3. I will need to compare similar subject matter's e.g. the same headlines in two different newspapers and the stories that follow them. 4. I will need to select a suitable word sample size that is neither too small to gain any information from or so large that the data involved is difficult to organise and analyse. 5. I will need to take care with the actually recording of the results as I will be dealing with large numbers of words mistakes can be very easy to do so I will need to take the utmost caution. How will I collect the information (what I am going to do) These are the newspapers that I consider to be tabloid newspapers: * The Sun * The News of The World * The Mirror * The
Racism Essay
Racism Essay In this section we looked at racism in the modern world and looked at it from many different point of views.We had to be many different types of people with different views. We had to be very racist to abit racist but we also had to be the coloured people which felt strange having people being rasict towards ourselfs. We done a scene where Marian got arrested.We took the character Marian from abit of text which was wrote in 1950's. The scene of Marian getting arrested was good because we showed alot of different points of how people would react to someones black slave getting arrested in a higher up society .We showed how the mum would be embarrased and wonder more about her credit then about marian.The rest of the family were more worried about marians well being then what others thought. We also did a scene were marian failed a driving test all because she was black.We put the point across that she only failed because she was black you could see this because because she didnt do anything wrong and also the instructor put across comments like "Cats my dog you can read"this showed that the instructor was racist.I found that people found it fairly easy to be racist at first then it got more difficult having to take it one step further.People also found it difficult to get bullied for being black and finding out what it was like to be the opposistion We had to