Methodology

To do my investigation I will be using articles from The Suns and The Telegraphs website. I will be collecting one report on the London Riots from each site. I have chosen these two newspapers as one is a tabloid and one a broadsheet so I expect there to be significant amount of details to analyse, compare and contrast.

I intend to make a study sheet so they can be compared easily, however I will use the internet sites to collect my data for the two articles. The articles will be ones which were written at a similar time to make sure that they have the same amount of occurrences to report on. I will look at and analyse a current edition of The Sun and of The Telegraph looking at similar and dissimilar features of language such as:

                Register – If the language is appropriate for the audience. Formal, political, teen mag.

Pragmatics - Social conventions, context, levels of formality social conventions

Graphology – The way it looks with images, serif, sans serif and layout

I have chosen ‘Cops Battle Riots Across London’ by Laura Caroe written on August 9^th 2011 from The Sun and ‘London Riots: police lose battle as lawlessness erupts’ by Mark Hughes and Tom Whitehead written on August 8^th 2011 from The Telegraph. The Sun being a tabloid has an audience of stereotypically less educated people with a lower level reading ability who are less interested in politics, finance, business and economy whilst The Telegraph is a broadsheet newspaper stereotypically read by an audience with a higher level reading ability who are right-winged Torie supporters.