'Read All About It'
GCSE Mathematics 'Read All About It' Introduction In this coursework I will compare, two articles from two different newspapers and then draw some conclusions form the results. The two articles I intend to compare relate to the recent event concerning, Mr Blunkett. One is from the Manchester Evening News (tabloid), and the other is The Sun (broadsheet). I chose this story because it was one of the hottest topics on the newspapers at the moment. I will be comparing word lengths, using 100 words from each article. People tend to think that tabloids are easier to read and express things in much simpler terms than broadsheets. This observation then leads me to the following hypothesis: Hypothesis: The tabloid (M.E.N) will contain shorter words than the broadsheet (The Sun) Pre-Test To prevent any problems from occurring during my experiment, I am going to do a pre-test that will involve me counting the lengths of 50 words from the Burnley Express, that is nothing to do with my experiment later on. Pre-Test Results Word Length Tally Total 5 2 0 3 6 4 7 5 9 6 4 7 4 8 9 0 1 2 0 3 During the pre-test many problems occurred, and these will need to be accounted for before I begin my experiment. The problems are: * Punctuation * Names appearing in text * Headlines and Sub-headlines * Hyphenated Words * Numbers included The Experiment In this
Read All About It
Read All About It Suresh is comparing magazines and newspapers. He chooses a passage from one newspaper and one magazine. They each contain 100 words and he counts the lengths of all the words. Suresh then says that the magazine has the shortest words. Write a hypothesis about the length of words in newspapers and magazines. Design and carry out an investigation to test your hypothesis. Investigate further. Introduction Suresh's hypothesis seemed to me at first to sound quite correct, that words in magazines would be shorter than those in newspapers. But then I realised that this was taking for granted that the newspaper would in a way be more 'serious' than a magazine, as my first thoughts on a magazine were those that wrote about celebrities and contained a lot of photographs. However, I do not think that this generalisation would hold with all magazines and newspapers, for instance, if I was to compare a magazine such as "Sight and Sound" which is a magazine about films, but one that examines films in quite an in-depth way, having interviews and articles on 'art-house' films for instance - with a newspaper like "The Daily Sport", aimed at men who prefer titillation to topical news stories, then I believed that Suresh's hypothesis may be proved wrong. As there is an enormous variety of magazines in the shops I tried to figure out a way of narrowing down the
READ ALL ABOUT IT
READ ALL ABOUT IT HYPOTHESIS The Guardian newspaper will use longer words per sentence than The Sun newspaper. I think this because The Guardian is aimed at a section of society that is supposedly more educated and section a section of the higher employed section of society i.e. Company Directors, Stockbrokers etc and will use longer more obscure words that The Sun readers will not understand as it is aimed at a lower less educated section of the population. COLLECTING RESULTS I will use a sample of 100 words taken from each article, omitting any words that are the same in each paper, such as place names and names of people as these are spelt the same no matter which paper they appear in. EXTENSION HYPOTHESIS I predict that The Guardian newspaper will have the larger number of words per sentence than The Sun newspaper. I also predict that The Guardian will have a larger reading age than The Sun newspaper. COLLECTING RESULTS TALLY CHART FOR THE NUMBER OF LETTERS PER WORD IN THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER Number or letters Tally Frequency 6 2 9 3 8 4 23 5 9 6 0 7 0 8 5 9 5 0 2 1 3 2 0 TOTAL 00 TALLY CHART FOR THE NUMBER OF LETTERS PER WORD IN THE SUN NEWSPAPER Number or letters Tally Frequency 4 2 9 3 21 4 21 5 8 6 9 7 2 8 5 9 4 0 2 1 3 2 2 TOTAL 00 AVERAGES THE SUN NEWSPAPER Number of letters per word Frequency
Newspaper Comparisons
Maths coursework on Statistics Newspaper Comparisons My Resources The resources I am using for this coursework are a tabloid paper, a broadsheet paper, the tabloid paper is called the "News of the World", and the broadsheet paper is called "The Sunday Telegraph". They both are the same dates and they both have the same stories/information in them. Aim / Hypothesis My aim is to take one 100-word article from a broadsheet newspaper and a tabloid newspaper and compare their readability by seeing how the sizes of the words vary. In addition, I will be comparing how many paragraphs there are on the front page of each newspaper and I will be comparing images per page up to five pages for both newspapers. These three factors can make an impact on the type of person reading a certain newspaper. My Objectives * To collect sufficient and reliable evidence for my results. * Present my data in a meaningful way. * To interpret and analyse results and diagrams. * To write a conclusion and analysis on the results I have acknowledged. Method I counted each letter in a word up to a 100 words and put my results in a tally. I then counted how many paragraphs there were in each article on the front page of each of the newspapers. In addition to this, I then made a tally of how many images there were on the first five pages of each newspaper. Then I compared the results I had
Emma’S Dilemma
EMMA'S DILEMMA I will now try some simple cases of rearranging letters to count the number of different combinations. TWO LETTER WORDS: AB BA CC THREE LETTER WORDS: ABC ACB BAC BCA CBA CAB ABB BAB BBA FOUR LETTER WORDS: CLUY CLYU CULY CYLU CYUL CUYL LUCY LYCU LCYU LCUY LUYC UYCL UYLC ULCY ULYC UCYL UCLY YCUL YCLU YLCU YLUC YUCL YULC AEMM AMME AMEM EMMA EAMM EMAM MEMA MEAM MMEA MMAE MAME MAEM RESULTS TABLE: NAME Number of different combinations CC AB 2 ABB 3 ABC 6 EMMA 2 LUCY 24 In my table I have spotted a pattern. The pattern is when a name has two letters the same it only has half the combinations of a name with all letters different. PREDICTION: I predict that if a word has 2 of the same letters then it has half the number of combinations than a word with the same amount of letters, of which all are different. I will now test my prediction on 2, five-letter words. I will use a five-letter word with two letters that are the same such as David. I will also use a five-letter word with all the letters different such as Craig. DAVID DAVDI DADIV DADVI DAIDV DAIVD DIAVD DIADV DIDAV DIDVA DIVDA DIVAD DVIAD DVIDA DVDIA DVDAI DVADI DVAID DDVAI DDVIA DDIVA DDIAV DDAIV DDAVI ADDVI ADDIV ADIVD ADIDV ADVDI ADVID AIDVD AIDDV AVDDI AVDID AVIDD AIVDD IAVDD IADVD IADDV IDADV IDAVD IDVAD
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.
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 Prediction 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 analyse 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. Interpretation/ Analysis By looking at the tally charts and box plots for both The
To find if a tabloid paper gives a more "easier" read than a broadsheet paper
Maths Coursework 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 Prediction A broadsheet paper will have more letters on average per word than a tabloid paper. Objectives . To collect data on number of letter per word in two papers. 2. To present data in a meaningful way 3. To interpret and analyse 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. Broadsheet Number Of Letters Number Of Times They Appear