Meeting with Alison!

I have just been to see Alison to finalise the idea with her and she seemed very happy with it. The proposed idea if everyone agrees to it is looking at diachronic change in university media. Using Redbrick's, (if Liam is able to get hold of old ones) we need to pick around ten copies from throughout the time it has been published. Alison said these should preferably include really old ones if we can find them as this would make the project fascinating, but if not even ones from the past ten years would show a lot of changes linguistically. To make sure the project is measurable, we need to look at one section in particular of each newspaper (Alison suggested the editorial) to analyse linguistic content. This will be the main focus of the project! In addition to this we could also look at the first double page spread of each paper to see how the layout and features have changed due to technology etc. In the most recent Redbrick's there are twitter feeds and a 'news feed' layout which would be very different to older publications.

Basically, the next steps are to find the newspapers because they should be there somewhere, revise the GLA and get started in dividing up the work.

If we have trouble finding the newspapers the other option would be to do the same project but with prospectuses instead, OR analysing both side by side,which would mean half the group looking at Redbrick's and half at prospectuses from the same years (This could be a lot of work though).

I've tried to write this as clearly as possible but if I've missed anything out or there is something you don't understand then let me know :) Hope this makes everyone feel better about the project in general and that everyone is happier as we have a very clear focus.