Criterion: Promoting the Standard

In this study, Anne Herrington and Sarah Stanley review a computer program designed to ‘read’ and respond to student writing. They focus on the ideology of language that drives the program and find that the program “enacts an arhetorical view of writing, a homogeneous view of English as a single-standard dialect, and an error-focused approach to teaching and
learning.”

PDF of Herrington and Stanley’s paper

Herrington, Anne and Sarah Stanley. “CriterionSM : Promoting the Standard.” Paper delivered at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.Open Herrington and Stanley.Criterion.pdf