Starting Points
Because of the difficulties in determining the beginning of a hypertextual work, certain types of starting points take on an increasingly important role. On the Web, there is little chance that any node in this work will be the point at which you start any Web session. You will likely have come from somewhere else (e.g., an email message or a newsgroup in which this work was referenced, another Web document that linked to this one, etc.). Thus, the starting point on the Web is always reader based: no author can determine where, how, why, or when a reader will start a Web session.
Beginnings
The Influence of Secondary Starting Points
An Introduction?
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