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- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 12:34:15 EST
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- From: Stuart Selber <SSELBER@MTUS5.CTS.MTU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: is the end of "the paper" in sight?
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- Bill Wresch writes:
- I like your idea of power and hypertext. I have thought for some time that
- hypertext creates freedom for the reader. And while it gives the writer more
- possibilities, it also creates more responsibilities. Add to this the
- increased use of visuals, and I think we have the beginnings of real problems
- for writers who are barely holding on to the rudiments of the five paragraph
- theme.
-
- Bill, two ideas. First, hypertext may create the *potential* for user freedom
- (freedom often being the claim of advertising for hypertext). Actually, what
- I think many current applications offer users is choices of system and
- author-generated links/connections,which still locates heavy responsibility
- with the writer as well as readers as well as system designer. Second, does/
- should hypertext reading/writing presuppose some facility with print-based
- reading/writing strategies or does it offer a different forum that requires a
- different rhetoric (as Slatin and Moulthrop discuss). And, as Eric Crump has
- recently asked, different pedagogical strategies than what we currently use for
- teaching print-based writing. What do you think?
-
- Stuart Selber
- Michigan Tech
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