Hypertext Fiction Assignment

ALSO FOR WEDNESAY is your short paper on a hypertext work of your choice. Here are the links for that again:

http://2007stocktonmulitmedia.blogspot.com/2007/02/sample-hypertext-fictions.html

This writing assignment should be at least 3 pages, double-spaced, in Times Roman font, 12 point, with one-inch margins. Any shorter than that and you risk being marked down. Again, if it's not in by Wednesday, the highest grade you can get is a B.

Issues you should cover:

• how does the interface work? is it successful, something you enjoy interacting with? does it help the literary aspects of the piece?
• how does the text/image interaction work? is the text ITSELF being used as an image?
• what kind of quality does the writing have? is it good writing? is it more like a poem, story or video game? does reading it out of order help the writing, or is it distracting?

BE SURE TO QUOTE FROM THE WRITING. I.e. you have to support your statements -- don't just write that it was hard to understand or that it was weird -- get some of the actual text into your paper. Also, these are all famous works, so you can Google the author and the title of the piece and most likely find info on them.

Some of these are pretty strange works, so try your best...

This assignment is in preparation for your own creative hypertext, which we'll discuss in class.