CAT FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY EMOJI: Here’s a problem US academia faces in the Trump era: teachers instruct students to follow ultra-boring rules for writing at an imaginary reader instead of adapting how they express their ideas for the people they’re talking with — and why / where / when. This comes from a Japanese website looking at OSP data: “Of the 1-position of the Strunk English sentence rule book ‘it is used in the 3077 pieces of tuition. When it becomes the 100th ranking ‘civil defiance,’ it is only used in 648 lessons.”
Open Syllabus Dec 12, 2016
Analysis of the top 100 titles from ‘Colorless Green Ideas’ — a Japanese data science blog (I think?) http://id.fnshr.info/2016/03/18/us-textbook/