English Language A Level Coursework - investigating use of language

I'm starting my A Level english language coursework but I am super lost and confused on what to do it on. I have found two tabloid articles one being describing a male murderer, one describing a female murderer. My idea was to investigate the way the media describes a female vs male murderer this fitting into language & gender then also maybe link to a bit of language & power and language & technology. Does anyone else have some useful tips if they are doing/have done a similar focus to this one?

Heya my coursework was wildly different, but I thought describing how I did my own coursework might help you with yours? So I looked at two of Theresa May's speeches, her acceptance speech as Prime Minister and her resignation speech. I found a theory on the ways different political parties used language in their manifestos, and so did a qualitative analysis on how similar/different each speech was from the manifesto. The specific quantitative analysis I did was looking at the use of different pronouns. For example, the main finding was that the second person "you" pronoun was used to excess in the acceptance speech, but never used in the resignation. I linked that to the sentences "you" was in, largely promises and asserted that she no longer used "you" because she was no longer in a position to uphold promises, and had in effect failed. I also looked at the different verb types she used, ignoring auxiliaries, and did this horribly in depth look at the transitive versus intransitive verbs, basically to say that her initial speech lacked direct objects, since it was hypothetical.

All this to say, for yours, I think the first thing for you to do is to read through and annotate each of your texts looking for interesting features. For example, are more words with negative connotations used for the woman, especially if it's a crime that goes against female stereotypes? Is there any evidence of dehumanisation in them? Do they use pronouns or just their names? Do they use the criminal's own words, does the tabloid seem to view the crime as justified or truly abhorrent? Also add a really pretentious title to it (for an example, my horribly pretentious title was 'When Face is Lost: Gender, Politics and Persona in Theresa May's Language') .
Another tip is to make sure your focus has a really good foundation of theory to build from. It's really quite hard to write an introduction if your topic's quite niche- so good on you for linking language and gender + the rest immediately.