Investigation

NEWSPAPER INVESTIGATION

On Tuesday May the 21st, after discussing different styles used by different newspapers and how each one was marketed, the students following the Return to Study Planning Period were placed in groups of five and given the task of choosing and reading, an article from various newspapers. We were encouraged to highlight and then compare the different styles of writing used by each one. We each asked to bring in our own copy of the days press from a selection of tabloids and broadsheet newspapers, which included The Sun (Karly), The Telegraph (Lisa), The Guardian (Maggie), The Times (Mich) and The Daily Mail (Myself). It was necessary to find an article that had been covered in each newspaper to ensure a fair comparison could be made. With three coloured pens, we read through the article in our own papers and underlined any statements that we thought were, FACT (blue), OPINION (red) or ASSUMPTION (green) and then discussed, in our group, what we thought of ...