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Report: Lecturers told to not use all capital letters for fear it could scare students into failure

Posted at 4:42 PM, Nov 20, 2018
and last updated 2018-11-20 17:42:58-05

A British university has asked its lecturers to not use all caps in assignments because it could scare the students into failure, according to British newspaper the Express

The newspaper said that lecturers at Leeds Trinity's School of Journalism have been told to "write in a helpful, warm tone." 

Lecturers were told that capitalizing letters could make the assignment more difficult. 

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