A New Kind of Writing

"Electronic text is clearly finding its way to a new, and new kind of, paradigm for writing--interactive online conversation. Such a form represents a movement into nonlinear hypertextual space where the classic oration cannot follow. We need not fear that this means the end of human thought, however; the oration gave way to the letter in the Middle Ages, and that gave way to the essay in the Renaissance. It is hardly surprising that the basic instructional form for verbal composition should change again in a digitized verbal world." (Richard A. Lanham The Electronic Word 78).

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