Topics Index

This node contains links to topics or concepts that appear throughout the piece. Some nodes are listed under more than one topic when that node either contains multiple topics or it doesn't quite fit under one of the topics I've designated (see Burke's notion of "container and thing contained"). As with the rest of the work, these topic designations are simply how I would categorize them, and should be seen as suggestions. The topics are listed alphabetically as are the titles of the nodes listed beneath each topic.

Argumentation	Authors	Beginnings/Introductions	Freedom
Hypertext Theory (Literature)	Linearity	Print vs. Hypertext	Privileging
Professional Communication	Postmodernism	Readers/Reading	Text/Textuality

Argumentation

• Author/Reader Relationship
• Argument or Database?
• Argument or Research?
• Argumentation on the World Wide Web
• Constructing an Argument
• Freedom and the Argument
• Is This Argumentation?
• Linearity and Print
• Privileging and Argumentation
• Reading and Writing on the Computer Screen
• Re-evaluating the Elements
• Rhetorical Argumentation
• Rhetorical Moves
• The Shifting Center
• Temporary Arguments
• What the Argument Says

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Authors

• Argument or Database?
• Argumentation on the World Wide Web
• Author Defined
• Author/Reader Relationship
• The Author's Authority
• The Author's Role
• Boundaries
• Collecting Fragments
• Competing for Attention
• Constructing an Argument
• Freedom and the Author
• Giving Up Authorial Control
• How Much Control?
• Hypertext as Database
• Implications of Postmodernism
• Intranets
• Making Changes to Others' Works
• Multiple Authors
• Negotiating with the Reader
• Notions of Author
• Postmodernism
• Postmodernism and Authors
• Re-evaluating the Elements
• Starting vs. Beginning a Work
• Univocal Voice
• What is an Author?

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Beginnings/Introductions

• An Introduction?
• Beginnings
• Background vs. Beginning
• Foucault and Beginnings
• Linearity and Print
• Nonlinear Narratives
• Places to Start
• The Preface
• Starting Points
• Starting Points Defined
• Starting vs. Beginning a Work
• What's in a Name?
• What is the Beginning?

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Freedom

• About This Project
• Constructing an Argument
• Freedom and Hypertext
• Freedom and the Argument
• Freedom and the Author
• Freedom and the Reader
• Freedom and the Text
• Freedom and Web Technology
• Giving Up Authorial Control
• Hypertext Theory
• Intranets
• Making Changes to Others' Works

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Hypertext Theory (Literature)

These links are to quotes from some of the current hypertext literature. In most cases, I have provided little, if any, commentary of my own within the node. Other nodes throughout the work are linked to these hypertext theory nodes as well, and some of those include commentary on the quotes. I've provided these links to give you a mere glimpse of hypertext theory.

• Aiding Expression
• Boundaries Disappear
• The Boundaries of Hypertexts
• Constructing Possibilities
• Collaborative Creation
• Collecting Fragments
• Death of the Book
• Deferral
• Different Kinds of Information
• The Ephemeral Character of Electronic Texts
• Frictionless Writing
• Formal Closure
• Hierarchical Organization
• Hypertexts as Conversation
• Hypertext as Database
• Hypertext Linearity
• Hypertext Reading
• An Inclusive Medium
• Individuality and Unique Texts
• An Infinitely Re-Centerable System
• The Instability of the "Text"
• Limits of the Text
• The Linearity of Hypertext
• Live Documents
• "Losing" Readers in Open Hypertexts
• Making Connections
• A New Kind of Writing
• Nonlinear Text
• Nonsequential Thought
• Non-texts
• Original Text
• Preventing Divergence
• Providing Possibilities
• Reader Organization
• Reading and Writing on the Computer Screen
• The Rhetoric of Liberation
• Selecting What Text to Read
• Spatial and Visual Dimensions of Texts
• Text Without Essence
• Three-Dimensional Hypertexts
• The Technology of Text Construction
• Univocal Voice
• A Vindication of Postmodern Literary Theory
• Ways to Organize Information
• Wittgenstein's Structure

Also see the Authors Index

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Linearity

• Constructing an Argument
• Freedom and Hypertext
• Hierarchical Organization
• Hypertext Linearity
• Linearity and Print
• The Linearity of Hypertext
• Nonlinear Narratives
• Non-sequential Thought
• The Preface
• Privileging and Argumentation
• What Is the Beginning?
• What Comes with Liberation?
• Wittgenstein's Structure
• Writing without Thought

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Print vs. Hypertext

• The Difference between Print and Hypertext
• Limits of Print Texts

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Privileging

• Achieving Equality of Information
• Beverly Sauer and Privileging
• The Core of Postmodernism
• Defining Postmodernism
• More Effective Information
• Panoptic Modes
• Privileging and Argumentation
• Privileging and Hypertext
• Privileging and the Web
• The Rhetoric of Liberation
• Seeing vs. Reading Maps
• The Shortcomings of Meta-narratives
• The Snapshot

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Professional Communication

• Implications for Professional Communication
• Intranet Development
• Web Site Development

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Postmodernism

• Achieving Equality of Information
• Author as Authority
• The Core of Postmodernism
• Defining Postmodernism
• Implications of Postmodernism
• More Effective Information
• Panoptic Modes
• Postmodern and Hypertext Theory
• Postmodernism
• Postmodernism and Authors
• Postmodernism and Readers
• Postmodernism and Texts
• The Preface
• Privileging and Argumentation
• The Shortcomings of Meta-narratives
• What Is the Beginning?

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Readers/Reading

• Hypertext Reading
• Is This Argumentation?
• Negotiating with the Reader
• Postmodernism and Readers
• The Power of the Reader
• Reader Control
• Reader Organization
• The Reader's Responsibility
• The Reader's Role
• Reading and Writing on the Computer Screen
• Rhetorical Moves
• Selecting What Text to Read

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Text/Textuality

• Entering the Conversation
• Hypertext as Database
• The Ideal Text
• Implications for Texts
• Inclusive Texts
• Limits of Print Texts
• Limits of the Text
• Link Texts
• Linking
• More Complete Information
• Multimedia
• Non-texts
• Postmodernism and Texts
• Redefine Text?
• Response in Texts
• Revising Texts
• The Scope of Web Documents
• Storing Pieces and Parts
• Temporary Text
• Types of Text
• What Counts as the Text?

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