Context of text development

• Hypertext - a non-linear way to present information and is usually accompanied using "links"
• Links on web pages to other pages
• Links on web pages to the same page
• Links indicating the bibliography used in an article
• Banner placed on web pages
• Short codes and long codes
• Hyperlink in words with unusual meaning
• Links with access to the new and old posts
• WWW - World Wide Web
• World Wide Web (WWW) - a global hypertext system of information residing on servers linked across the internet
• Hypertext is the foundation of World Wide Web
• The term hypertext was coined by Ted Nelson in 1963
• URL - Uniform Resource Locator
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL) - colloquially termed as "web address", is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on the computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it
• web pages (http) file transfer (ftp) email (mailto) database access (JDBC)
• A typical URL has this form - protocol, host name, file name
• Links are not just limited to text or documents but also incorporate other forms of multimedia such as pictures, sounds, and videos, that stimulate other senses. This is called hypermedia.
• Why hypertext?

  1. In a hypertext system, the reader is free to navigate information by exploring the connections provided
  2. Hypertext is a very different way of presenting information than the usual linear way form
  3. Text no longer flows in a straight lines through a book. Instead, it is broken down to many smaller units.
• Intertext - refers to a work whose meaning is shaped by referencing or calling to mind other texts
• Intertext

  1. We can widen our knowledge
  2. We can view different texts and different perspectives
  3. We can be more certain about what we know
  4. Your ideas match the ideas of the previous author helps validate the things you know. It likewise increases the credibility of the information
• Retelling - it is the restatement of the story or re-expression of the 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, the writer or speaker explicitly or implicitly pertains to an idea or passage found in another text without the use of a quotation
• Pastiche - It is the text developed in a way that copies the style or other properties of another text without making fun of it unlike in a parody
• Questions used to validate intertext:

  1. Are there two or more stories involved?
  2. Does the text show direct or indirect connection to another piece of work