First, one must know the critical information about the hypertext way of writing. These differences are very important to understand how hypertext and traditional writing are different but how they can also exist together.
Literary hypertext offers a new way of reading and writing.
It allows more power and independence in reader response n that you are able to interact or have a choice when reading and writing and allows both the reader and writer to be more imaginative and apply human experience with the links. So it is important that college students and maybe even high school students should know a little about the many differences between hypertext and traditional writing before you are overwhelmed by reading the hypertext for the first time. It could be simply defined as a new way of writing and reading or a nonsequential form of writing. With hypertext, it allows you as a reader to be interactive with not only where you are going next in the story but sometimes in helping the author write the story itself. This gives the reader a sense of power.