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Hypertext & Intertext: Reading and Writing

This document discusses hypertext and intertext in reading and writing. It defines hypertext as text with links to other information that allows for nonlinear reading. Examples include dictionaries and digital texts with hyperlinks. Intertext is defined as how the meaning of a text is shaped by other texts through allusions, parodies, and pastiches. Hypertext offers advantages like multiple paths of inquiry but also disadvantages like disorientation and eye strain.

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Hypertext & Intertext: Reading and Writing

This document discusses hypertext and intertext in reading and writing. It defines hypertext as text with links to other information that allows for nonlinear reading. Examples include dictionaries and digital texts with hyperlinks. Intertext is defined as how the meaning of a text is shaped by other texts through allusions, parodies, and pastiches. Hypertext offers advantages like multiple paths of inquiry but also disadvantages like disorientation and eye strain.

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Reading and Writing

HYPERTEXT & INTERTEXT

Prepared by:
MRS. ARNEZ JEWELL D. MANLIMOS
WHAT DO YOU PREFER, PRINT READING
OR DIGITAL READING?

PRINT READING
DIGITAL READING
READING:
LINEAR & NONLINEAR
LINEAR READING NONLINEAR READING
Linear reading involves the
the readers do not have to go through
ability to read an extended
the text in a sequential manner in
narrative in continuous, in- order to make sense of the text.
depth fashion and reflect upon
its meaning. EXAMPLES:

EXAMPLES: Dictionary, Digital texts with


Novels, Poems, Letters, Textbooks,
hyperlinks, Encyclopedias
Newspapers, Articles
HYPERTEXT
HYPER(PREFIX) - over; beyond; above.

TEXT- written or printed words, typically forming a


connected piece of work
• NELSON (1987) described hypertext • Hypertext is text that links to other
as a series of chunks connected by information.
links that offer readers different
pathways. • a software system that links topics on the
screen to related information and graphics,
• It is non-linear or multi linear, non- which are typically accessed by a point-and-
sequential, and allows for the reader’s click method.
navigation control.
• Hypertext is text displayed on a 
• TED NELSON coined the words computer display or other electronic devices
“hypertext” and “hypermedia” in  with references (hyperlinks) to other text
1965 and worked with Andires Van that the reader can immediately access.
Dam to develop the hypertext editing
system in 1968.
HYPERTEXT
EXAMPLE
..\FACE TO FACE FILES\ID\ID FILES.docx
ADVANTAGES OF HYPERTEXT
1. Multiple paths of inquiry
2. Individualized learning opportunities
3. Reader or learner control
4. Support of connection of ideas
5. Creating new references
6. Critical thinking
7. Ease of navigation
8. Asynchronous communication
DISADVANTAGES OF HYPERTEXT
1. Paper-based information is more comfortable to read
2. Computer/gadget is required
3. Readers disorientation
4. Cognitive overhead
5. Causes eye strain
6. Too much control
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INTERTEXT
INTER (PREFIX) - used to form words meaning
between or among groups of people, things or places.

TEXT- written or printed words, typically forming a


• The shaping of a text meaning by another text. connected piece of work

• A term first introduced by French semiotician


JULIA KRISTEVA in the late sixties.

• A literary work is not simply the product of a single


author, but of its relationship to other texts and to
the structures of language itself.

• Any text is constructed of mosaic of quotations.


TYPES OF INTERTEXTUALITY
1. ALLUSION – An expression that calls attention to something without
explicitly mentioning it. Ex. “Thank you, Romeo”
2. PARODY – When one piece of writing uses many of the same
elements of another but does it in a new and funny way.
3. PASTICHE - A respectful way of borrowing that gives credit to the
original and is not plagiarism.

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