Week Eight

We met today to discuss how to make our findings measurable. We have decided to look for:

• Abbreviations
• Contractions
• Colloquialisms
• Archaisms
• The tone
• Any other interesting features that stand out and are comparable
  

To compare our pieces we will make comparisons between our own decade and a recent copy (from 2 weeks ago) of Redbrick to see how they differ. The measurable factors such as the number of abbreviations, contractions, colloquialisms and archaisms could be represented by bar graphs or pie charts to show changes.

We are meeting next Friday at 10 to compare our findings so we can collate them and put them in the PowerPoint. Then we will attend the meeting at 12.

Alison's help

Alison also very kindly sent me the link to this document, which may help us with our project:

http://icame.uib.no/ij26/westin_geisler.pdf

Week Seven

What we've done:

• Delegated the decades
  
• Signed up to the Special Collections register (to enable us to look at the Redbricks)
  
• Selected which issues of Redbrick to analyse
• Completed paperwork to allow us to take photographs of the newspapers (so we have records that we can refer to for analysis and for decorative purposes for the PowerPoint presentation)
• Taken photographs of the appropriate pages
• Set up the slides for the PowerPoint presentation

What we need to do:

• Decide upon a method of analysing the data. For example, choose linguistic features that we all look for, so that we have a point of comparison for the PowerPoint for all of the decades
• Complete the analysis
• Add the data, findings and a conclusion to the PowerPoint presentation and audio clips of narration

Week Six

Following Ellie's meeting with Alison, we met up to finalise our project plan. We went to Special Collections in the Muirhead Tower to obtain old copies of Redbrick newspapers.

Our project works best with at a range of decades so we have designated a decade to each person:
Ellie - 1960s

Jess - 1970s

Kate - 1980s

Liam - 1990s

Anna - 2000 - 2010

To make sure that we have a good range, with enough space between each paper, we have decided that we should all look at the 2nd and 7th years within our decade.

We will all then analyse our copies looking for the following features:
Formality

Tone

Colloquialisms

Archaic words

Layout

Purpose

When it comes to producing the final presentation, each person will feedback on their own decade.