What is Hypertext?
Technically speaking hypertext is a link you click on to get from one page to another when surfing the internet (or an intranet). The pictures and phrases that make up the links are called hypertext links. Any time you click on something on a web site you are actively using hypertext.
The hypertext we want to look at here is a type of electronic genre for writing. We want to give you some ideas of how you can use hypertext in the classroom and as a publishing medium.
We believe that hypertext writing brings an element of the oral storytelling of the past to modern writing. You only have to visit The Neverending Tale website to see how this works.
Hypertext writing in a school setting can be approached two ways - write deliberately for the medium; or convert something already written to hypertext. Both ways work well - although the latter sometimes requires some horizontal thinking!
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