Revising Texts

Texts on the Web affect argument because texts can be changed at any time. Text on the Web is not static, it's dynamic. For example, if I have created a Web document that's available right now, if someone convinces me to change my position, or tells me about a link to another document that would work well with mine, I can simply make changes to the document and as soon as I save the changes, the new version becomes available. I'm not forced to recompile a new version as I would in a hypertext system such as Windows Help. With HTML, I can make changes on the fly, which allows Web documents to be works in progress, a progress that doesn't have to end. "[S]ince many documents on the Web are regularly revised and updated, both the authorial corps and the textual corpus are subject to change" (Stuart A. Moulthrop "Getting Over the Edge" )


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