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- What is Hypertext? <sum09 1 4>
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- Problems with If you have information with little structure, it
- comprehension requires critical reading and thinking to put it all
- ============= together. That's hard work -- causing most people to
- either skip or ignore the information rather than
- assemble and comprehend it. <link37>
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- Importance of However, if you provide information with clear structure,
- clear structure almost anyone can comprehend the relationships. Why?
- =============== Because human minds are designed for rapid pattern
- recognition, not critical thinking. <link45>
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- Organized for In a nutshell, hypertext is putting information in
- browsing patterns that are obvious to users so they can easily
- ======== locate, browse, and understand a system of knowledge
- to whatever degree desired. Good hypertext:
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- │ Indexes ideas (not words) <link56 1 19> │
- │ Provides minimum keystroke paths to all ideas │
- │ Shows users relationships between ideas <link32 2> │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘