ST&D 2017: 27TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR TEXT & DISCOURSE

27th Annual Meeting Online Program

Welcome to Philadelphia!

We are honored to host 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse in the historic city of Philadelphia.  This year’s event takes place at the newly renovated Sonesta at Rittenhouse Square, which is located downtown, not far from the historic district.  This year we received over 150 proposals that represent a diverse body of research from a wide range of institutions around the world.  The quality of the proposals this year was exceptional, and we would like to thank the reviewers for their attention to detail. 

This year’s program is very exciting!  Susan R. Goldman will be receiving the 2017 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.  Susan will be presenting findings from her recent work on evidence-based argumentation, epistemology and reading in the disciplines. Catherine (Kate) Bohn-Gettler will be receiving the 2017 Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award, and Raymond A. Mar, recipient of the 2016 Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award, will be presenting his work on the engagement of fictional narratives in different media.  We are also proud to have M. Anne Britt deliver the keynote address for this year’s meeting.  Anne will be presenting her latest work on, RESOLV, a framework for understanding how people process multiple text in 21^st century reading environments. 

This year includes symposia on computer-based tutorial dialogs (in honor of Art Graesser), social and content-related processes and their interplay in instructional communication, and examining strategy use across modalities.  There are also a range of theme based sessions on natural language processing, reading comprehension, cohesion/sentence processing, narrative inconsistencies, misinformation, multiple texts & sources, individual differences, assessment, learning technologies, metacognition/meta-comprehension and narrative processing.  We are excited to host two poster sessions that allow for more detailed interaction with innovative researchers in our community.  We are fortunate to have a pre-workshop sessions on designing conversational items using spoken dialog and a second workshop that provides an introduction to the programming software called R.

We hope you will also take time to enjoy the city.  Philadelphia is a modern city with colonial charm and plenty of local color.  Feel free to visit Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Franklin Institute, or a baseball game at Citizen’s Park.  Treat yourself to a musical on Broad Street at the Academy of Music, jazz at Chris’s Jazz Cafe, maybe strut on down to the Mummer’s Museum, or arrive the weekend before the conference and take the ferry to the XPoNential Music Festival on the Camden Waterfront in NJ.  You can stroll through Old City or Penn’s Landing down by the Delaware River, enjoy a soft pretzel from a street vendor, international cuisine at one of the diverse city restaurants, or a cannoli in the Italian Market. If your arteries can handle it, you can risk an infamous Philly Cheesesteak at Geno’s or Pat’s Steaks.  For a taste of colonial history and fine dining, we will be hosting a dinner at the historic City Tavern and offer a ghost tour of some of the most haunted areas in Philly.

Finally, we would like to thank our program committee including Kietha Biggers, Kelsey Dreier, Blair Lehman, Jesse Sparks, Jonathan Steinberg, and Zuowei Wang.  Special thanks to Mike Mensink, Mike Wolfe, Kate Bohn-Gettler, and the review committee for all their guidance and help with this year’s conference.

 

John Sabatini and Tenaha O’Reilly

Program Chairs

27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, 2017

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