The article starts off by talking about how the type of
writing students are creating now a days is quite different form the writing
people were used to seeing in the 20th century, this is in part due
to hypertexts. To put quite simply you don’t need to be a computer wiz to
understand what exactly a hypertext is. A hyper text is simply a link a writer
add to their piece which views can click on to direct them to a different page.
This page is typically full of useful information pertaining to the writer’s
original text. Hypertexts are so useful because they make it so easy for writers
to make their work so much denser and chalk full of useful information.
Although “While a portion of writing teachers find these new texts and techs
compelling and exciting, others are wary, fearing that we may not be able to
adjust to or manage 21st-century literacies. “ I choose only to see the good in
incorporating hypertexts into my own work as a writer. We are living in a
digital age as we have emphasized quite frequently throughout this semester.
You can either swim or sink the way I see it, and hypertexts are going to keep
you afloat. Hypertexts can add so much to your rhetoric, giving you more to
back up your opinion on and also making it easy for your readers to follow
along with the supplementary information the hypertexts provide. Hypertext also
give a writer a great deal of mobility; “Hypertechs and digi- tal texts are
dynamic, multimodal, interactive, and connected. They can be produced,
reproduced, written, and rewritten with relative ease and flexibility and
distributed more broadly than ever before almost instantly. “ The addition of
hypertexts to one’s writing make the writing accecable to a much larger and
more broad audience, therefore giving the piece much better chance of
circulation. They also keep pieces more interesting visually and content wise.
The addition of the hypertexts really aid in making the reader feel more immersed
and involved in what they are reading, versus simply scanning page after page
of nothing but writing. All in all hypertexts are great writing tools that
should not be feared, but should be embraced in writing in this digital age we
live in.
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