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This assignment has 2 parts.\u00a0 You will submit both parts in this assignment.\u00a0 You may do it in one file or separate them into two files.<\/span><\/p>\n Part 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Hypertext Notes<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Part 2:\u00a0Hypertext Essay<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(you MUST include at least 3 hyperlinks in your essay)<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What<\/span>\u00a0is\u00a0<\/span>Hypertext?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Hypertext is writing on the web that incorporates the use of\u00a0<\/span>hyperlinks<\/span>.\u00a0 This is its main distinguishing feature, and what makes it different from regular writing.\u00a0 While we read most book text or papertext from top to bottom, left to right, front to back, we don’t necessarily read hypertext in the same linear way.\u00a0<\/span> Hypertext is read differently by each reader.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore each hypertext document continues to change.\u00a0 The reader is as much a part of the writing as the writer in making meaning.\u00a0 Read the following\u00a0<\/span>analogy<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0to better understand.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You’re on a nature walk—<\/span>a “papertext” nature walk.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0<\/span>linear<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The park committee has created a trail that begins and ends at the parking lot. You begin at the meadow and the\u00a0<\/span>prairie flowers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and follow the signs, continuing on the path as you’ve been directed.\u00a0 You stop to read the signs pointing out such things as a 200-year-old oak tree, a\u00a0<\/span>butterfly house<\/span><\/a>, an eagle’s nest and so on.\u00a0 While you learn a lot and see a lot, the path you’re on was designed for you by the park committee or the “writer.”\u00a0 Your friend who came on this walk with you, took pretty much the same walk.\u00a0 You may have looked at the\u00a0<\/span>trillium<\/span><\/a>\u00a0a bit longer than she did,\u00a0s<\/span><\/span>he<\/span>noticed a\u00a0<\/span>woodpecker<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that you missed.\u00a0\u00a0However<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0overall, you saw all the same things;<\/span>\u00a0you stepped over all the same tree roots in the path.\u00a0 You took the same linear walk.\u00a0 This is pretty much what happens when we read a papertext.<\/span><\/span> N<\/span>ow<\/span>\u00a0you’re on a “hypertext”\u00a0nature walk<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 You start at the parking lot, just like you did on the papertext nature walk.\u00a0 However, this trail is different.\u00a0 This trail has hyperlinks to nature parks all over the world and reference books and virtual places in history and all kinds of things that defy time and space.\u00a0\u00a0O<\/span>n<\/span>\u00a0this walk, you stop to see that same 200-year-old oak tree, but instead of reading about it and continuing on, you decide you want to learn more about ancient\u00a0<\/span>species<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of trees.\u00a0 So you click on the hyperlink (click your heels like Dorothy) and you are transported through time and space to a lecture on\u00a0<\/span>forests<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(a web page) from which you learn all about\u00a0<\/span>ancient trees<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 This is so interesting to you that you decide to click your heels again and go to\u00a0<\/span>India<\/span>\u00a0to see banyan trees.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n While your friend\u00a0went\u00a0<\/span>to the lecture on ancient trees with you, she is not that interested in\u00a0<\/span>banyan trees<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 She also thinks it will be too hot in\u00a0<\/span>India<\/span><\/a>, so she clicks her heels and goes back to the old\u00a0<\/span>oak tree<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 She continues on the path awhile until she comes to the eagle’s nest.\u00a0 She wishes she could see into it, up there so high, and she realizes that if she clicks her heels, she will be able to view the streaming\u00a0<\/span>eagle cam<\/span><\/a>, a nature camera set up to show eagle eggs hatching in real time (though there is also a taped version that she can watch in fast motion).\u00a0 So, she’s on her way to view a spectacular\u00a0<\/span>aerie<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 while you’re gazing up at an amazing banyan tree.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You started out together on the same path (the same home page), but you ended up clicking on different links that took you literally worlds apart through time and space.\u00a0 Where you went once you opened that first page of hypertext was determined more by you (the reader)\u00a0 than by the writer. \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0I<\/span>t<\/span>\u00a0was based on what you wanted or needed to know.\u00a0 This is how hypertext works.\u00a0 The path is not necessarily linear.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n S<\/span>ince<\/span>\u00a0hypertext is being read on a computer screen, it is generally more tiring reading.\u00a0 Additionally, people have grown accustomed to reading small bits of information quickly, assessing satisfaction (do I like\/need this or not?) just as quickly, and moving on.\u00a0 In the same way that\u00a0<\/span>reading hypertext<\/span>\u00a0is different from reading papertext, it is also true that writing hypertext is different\u00a0<\/span>from writing papertext.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n When you make hyperlinks, you must consider what your reader already knows (or what you think he or she knows). You also have to think about what information your reader might need in order to understand what you are writing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Will a word need to be defined?\u00a0 In addition to having the responsibility of organizing hypertext in a careful, logical manner with logical, easy-to-navigate links (that work), hypertext writers also need to be concise (not wordy). Good hypertext writers also must incorporate more traditional aspects of good writing:<\/p>\n\n
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