How hypertext tool writing is different than linear writing? In the essay Hypertext, hypermedia & literary Studies: The State of the Art, Landor and Delany mentioned that linear writing is bounded and fixed. If readers are reading a book, they have to follow the flow of the book and read it to the end. This linear writing structure is for guiding the readers to think as close as the author. Also, readers do not have to think too much in order to finish the reading. Different from Hypertext tool writing structure, Hypertext tool structure takes audience to one place but then it gives audiences the chance to make decisions during the processing of understanding the story.
In my experience, I see hypertext all over on the website, and I would like to talk about one of my favorite websites- Youtube. When I finished watching a music video, there are some related music videos will show up at the end, and I could decide which one I want to watch. This could guide me from one music video to another. My emotions and thoughts would affect my choice. It naturally makes me to get involved with the content and knows which music videos that I would be more interested in.
The easiest way to think of a linear writing example is reading a book. A book has content and it shows how many chapters there are in order to complete the whole story. Readers could guess about the ending while reading, but there is no other choice except skipping other chapters to find out the end of the story. Therefore, readers are fixed to read along the first chapter to the last chapter. Readers cannot really make any choices during the process of knowing the story.
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