Due on Wednesday

For next class, a reading assignment and brief response:

1. Read the below article, which uses the story we discussed in class as a jumping-off point:

http://www.nomadpete.com/files/fivestanding/hype/hyper-text.htm

2. Write a short paper answering these questions (in response to the story and the linked reading):

a. List three ways in which reading on the internet is different than reading from a book.

b. How is the web-reading experience "non-linear"? And how does linear thinking differ from non-linear thinking?

c. In what way does non-linear reading invite us to be the "author" of texts that we read, even if we didn't in fact write those texts?