DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 6, 2010

The Society for Text & Discourse is proud to announce it has reached a landmark occasion.  The Society, officially formed in 1990, is celebrating its Twentieth Anniversary in 2010, and will hold its Twentieth Annual Meeting at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago, IL, Monday through Wednesday, August 16 – 18, 2010.

The Society for Text & Discourse is an international society of researchers who investigate all aspects of text and discourse including processing and analysis. The purpose of the Society is to foster and promote excellence in research, to enhance communication among researchers in different disciplines, and to contribute to the education and professional development of those in the field or entering the field. Therefore, we invite scholars from various disciplines (e.g., psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, learning sciences, artificial intelligence, education, sociology, anthropology, communications, philosophy, English, computer science, second language learning, poetics and others) to attend and participate in the 2010 Annual Meeting. We invite proposals for presentations of individual papers and posters. In addition, if you have suggestions for Symposia or Themed Sessions, please send them to the Program Chairs (Susan Goldman (sgoldman@uic.edu) or Jennifer Wiley (jwiley@uic.edu) by January 15, 2010.

The DEADLINE for submitting proposals for the 2010 Annual Meeting is now March 6, 2010.

A Program Review Committee will review the proposals, and authors will be notified regarding acceptance by April 1, 2010.

Proposals should be submitted online at http://std2010.lsri.uic.edu/openconf.php

Submission Format
During submission you will be prompted to enter:
   1. A title
   2. First author student status (this will be used for award eligibility)
   3. Author information (Name, Affiliation, Country and Email addresses for all authors)
   4. Appropriate topic areas for reviewing
   5. Content keywords for session creation
   6. A 75-word abstract
We suggest preparing the abstract in a word processing document, and cut and pasting into the form.
   7. Upload a 2-3 page summary of the presentation.
The summary should have a title but no author information (Summary max. 1000 words, bibliographic references are not included in word count). It should contain basic sections including a short theoretical introduction, methodological overview (including quantitative or qualitative approach), key findings, and a brief discussion.

An example summary based on Wiley, Goldman, Graesser, Sanchez, Ash & Hemmerich, 2009, AERJ, is posted at http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/conferences/Samplepaper2010.doc.
 
Proposals that exceed the length specified will not be reviewed.

    8. Presentation Preference
If you would prefer a poster presentation over a spoken presentation, then please indicate this by typing “Poster Only” in the Comments to Chair field.  Otherwise all submissions will be considered for both papers and posters.

You should receive confirmation directly from the online system upon submission.

Submission-based Awards

The Society recognizes excellence in research with two annual awards based on papers submitted to the Annual Meeting:

The Outstanding Student Paper Award
The Outstanding Student Paper Award (OSPA) recognizes quality in work that is predominantly that of a graduate student. Accordingly, the student must be first author on the paper. The student's major advisor must send an email to stdconference2010@gmail.com certifying that this work has been done primarily by the student, and a paragraph-length recommendation of the paper for the award. The subject line for the email must be "OSPA Certification."

The Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award
The Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award (JAOYSA) honors the memory of Jason Albrecht, a promising young text and discourse researcher who passed away in 1997. The award recognizes an outstanding paper based on a doctoral dissertation. The doctoral candidate or recent doctorate must be first author on the paper. The student's dissertation advisor must send an email to stdconference2010@gmail.com certifying that the work is based on the nominee's doctoral dissertation, and recommending the candidate for the award. The subject line for the email must be "JAOYSA Certification."

Proposals eligible for the Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award and the Outstanding Student Paper Award will undergo two reviews: one by the regular Program Review Committee and a second by the Awards Committee. Only proposals that are accepted for presentation as spoken papers on the program will be considered for the awards. Finalists may be asked for additional information regarding the submission for the final award review process.

Recipients of each award receive a certificate and a $150 award check.

Additional Information
For more information on the Society for Text & Discourse and the 2010 Annual Meeting, please see the ST&D website at http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/conferences/index.html

Inquiries about the submission process or the conference should be sent to stdconference2010@gmail.com.