The tutor should check to make sure that the writer's hypertextual work agrees with the assigned purpose given by the professor. It is extremely easy to become swayed in a different direction when setting up a web site because there is so much information readily available. Writers may need to narrow their topics down several times before they reach a level of information which is manageable. Tutors must be aware of those students who provide tons of links to outside resources, but lack in their own conclusions. If the writer's work spreads out in too many directions it is unlikely that it will cover anything in great depth.
Links are the culprits of many of the problems related to the scope of a student's project.
If readers decide to click on all of the links in the hypertext, they may lose the flow of what the author is trying to say. It is possible to follow several different paths, but a complete story should be told. A good academic web site should also provide this sense of a central theme holding many parts of a story together. Links provide many options and extensive pools of information for the reader to indulge in, but the writer's message could become lost if the hypertext is not designed carefully. One option that tutors can suggest to writers who are losing their message is to place most of the links on a separate page under appropriate subheadings.