Hypertext and Intertext

• Hypertext - is a non-linear way to present information and is usually accomplished using “links”.
• Links - Such links help the readers navigate further information about the topic being discussed and may also lead to other links that can direct the readers to various options.
• WORLD,WIDE,WEB - is a global hypertext system of information residing on servers linked across the internet.
• The term hypertext was coined by Ted Nelson in 1963.
• (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
• PARTS OF A HYPERLINK

  A) URL

  B) Link name

  C) Title

  
• Intertextuality or intertext is one method of text development that enables the author to make another text based on another text.
• Intertextuality is said to take place using four specific methods namely: retelling, pastiche, quotation, and allusion.
• Retelling - It is the restatement of a story or re-expression of a narrative
• Quotation - It is the method of directly lifting the exact statements or set of words from a text another author has made.
• Allusion - In this method, a writer or speaker explicitly or implicitly pertains to an idea or passage found in another text without the use of quotation.
• Pastiche - It is a text developed in a way that it copies the style or other properties of another text without making fun of it unlike in a parody.
• Url - Uniform Resource Locator