TY - CHAP TI - Discourse Analytics AU - Rosé, Carolyn T2 - The Handbook of Learning Analytics A2 - Lang, Charles A2 - Siemens, George A2 - Wise, Alyssa Friend A2 - Gaševic, Dragan AB - This chapter introduces the area of discourse analytics (DA). Discourse analytics has its impact in multiple areas, including offering analytic lenses to support research, enabling formative and summative assessment, enabling of dynamic and context sensitive triggering of interventions to improve the effectiveness of learning activities, and provision of re ec- tion tools such as reports and feedback after learning activities in support of both learning and instruction. The purpose of this chapter is to encourage both an appropriate level of hope and an appropriate level of skepticism for what is possible while also exposing the reader to the breadth of expertise needed to do meaningful work in this area. It is not the goal to impart the needed expertise. Instead, the goal is for the reader to nd his or her place within this scope to discern what kinds of collaborators to seek in order to form a team that encompasses suf cient breadth. We begin with a de nition of the eld, casting a broad net both theoretically and methodologically, explore both representational and algorithmic dimensions, and conclude with suggestions for next steps for readers who are interested in delving deeper. CY - Alberta, Canada DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 ET - 1 SP - 105 EP - 114 PB - Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) SN - 978-0-9952408-0-3 UR - http://solaresearch.org/hla-17/hla17-chapter1 ER -