Sample Data Evaluation
1. When evaluating my data, I predicted that tabloid newspapers (The daily star, and The Mirror) would contain far more colloquial lanuage, which was correct. I also predicted that broadsheet newspapers would be in a more formal strcturure. This was shown through the page layout, with the broadsheets (The guardian, and the Telegraph) containing far mroe compelx sentences and larger paragraths.
2. More indepth of the language choices used by the newspapers and what target audience they aim to appeal to by doing so.
3. The data was scientific to a certain extent due to all 4 articles i collected were pulished on te 24th of March 2013, all reporting the same event of the 'Woolwich attack'. The data linked to Power theory, by how it aims to influence its audience through the language features they use.
4. There was overall enough data to collect from the 4 peices, however they contrasted in size. e.g. Guardian article 400 words, the Daily Star article 1200words. By collecting 2 broadsheet and 2 tabloid newspapers, covering the same story over a period of time, it will make my data comparable and reliable.
5. One concern was i collected my data online from past events over 3months ago. To gain futher indepth data, I will use newspapers themselves to collect my data. By doing so, this will show me the full page layout, and the amount of images each use.
