University lecturers told DON'T USE CAPS as it frightens students

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https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1046977/university-lecturers-not-to-use-cap-letters-student-failure

Staff at Leeds Trinity's school of journalism have also been told to "write in a helpful, warm tone, avoiding officious language and negative instructions". Some blasted the move as "more academic mollycoddling" of the snowflake generation. An "enhancing student understanding, engagement and achievement" memo lists dos and don'ts - with "do" and "don't" among words frowned upon.

Course leaders say capitalising a word could emphasise "the difficulty or high-stakes nature of the task".

The memo says: "Despite our best attempts to explain assessment tasks, any lack of clarity can generate anxiety and even discourage students from attempting the assessment at all.

Generally, avoid using capital letters for emphasis and "the overuse of 'do', and, especially, 'DON'T'."

The memo also says that staff must be "explicit about any inexplicitness" in their assignment briefs.

And it warns that when students are unsure of an assessment, "they often talk to each other and any misconceptions or misunderstandings quickly spread throughout the group (usually aided and abetted by Facebook).

This can lead to further confusion and students may even then decide that the assessment is too difficult and not attempt it".

One staff member said they use capitals to emphasise the importance of a particular point so students do not miss it.

The lecturer said: "We have some excellent students but it's a constant battle against a system that wants to treat them like little kids. We are not doing our students any favours with this kind of nonsense."

The university said the guidance was sharing "best practice from the latest teaching research", adding: "We take pride in supporting our students to be the very best they can be."

Students at Manchester have voted to ban clapping over fears noise could trigger anxiety and suggest using "jazz hands" to show appreciation.

[FWD 297]

What the fuck is a "university lecturer"?

[Macanudo 13018]

1 minute ago, FWD said:

What the fuck is a "university lecturer"?

This was your main take away?

[FWD 297]

3 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

This was your main take away?

If you want my real takeaway it's this: at some 4th rate college in the UK with 3000 students and that has only been a university for 6 years, a staffer in the journalism school sent out a memo saying don't use ALL CAPs in your messages to students. The professors and students both laughed off this suggestion. Yet some idiot decided this was still worthy of a new thread. Great job.

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FUCK THIS.

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THE WORLD NEEDS DITCHBARISTAS TOO

[phdhorn 6224]

16 hours ago, FWD said:

If you want my real takeaway it's this: at some 4th rate college in the UK with 3000 students and that has only been a university for 6 years, a staffer in the journalism school sent out a memo saying don't use ALL CAPs in your messages to students. The professors and students both laughed off this suggestion. Yet some idiot decided this was still worthy of a new thread. Great job.

And yet, it's a story taken from Britain's 9th largest paper, who thought it was worth a story.  It also appeared in at least six other British newspapers, three from among the top five British newspapers in the country, and was a feature on their popular morning BBC TV program, "Good Morning Britain.'

I think you need to write a strongly-worded letter to about 17 companies and tell them to stop publishing the stuff, because it doesn't met with your idea of a worthy story.  I'm sure from that point on they'll all oblige and you don't have to look at stuff like this anymore.

Edited November 22, 2018 by phdhorn

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26 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

And yet, it's a story taken from Britain's 9th largest paper, who thought it was worth a story.  It also appeared in at least six other British newspapers, three from among the top five British newspapers in the country, and was a feature on their popular morning BBC TV program, "Good Morning Britain.'

I think you need to write a strongly-worded letter to about 17 companies and tell them to stop publishing the stuff, because it doesn't met with your idea of a worthy story.  I'm sure from that point on they'll all oblige and you don't have to look at stuff like this anymore.

DANGER DANGER DANGER ............SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE IT WHEN YOU RIDICULE THEIR DEEPEST HELD BELIEFS.

[Assman 1830]

A lecturer told to not use caps?  Is that like rain on your wedding day?

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21 hours ago, FWD said:

What the fuck is a "university lecturer"?

and I'd like to know why the students want to use "jizz hands" to show appreciation....that would seem to get messy....

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aggy gon' sue