Creating a true hypertext demands an evolution of sorts and challenges student writers to create a new type of academic composition that breaks out of the traditional rhetorical structures. Composition created for the computer landscape invites readers to participate more fully in multiple readings and suggestive interpretations of the text by providing contending arguments, subversive subtexts, and perhaps even self-contradictory narrative elements. Graphics and sound also amplify the text in ways not possible in printed texts. New interactive rhetorics are still being conceptualized. This assignment, therefore, requires students to create a hypertext and to develop reasonable criteria for its evaluation.
Due date is the last day of class.
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