Discusses collaborative design in the context of developing a "Toolbook" hypertext intended to introduce graduate students to the fields of rhetoric and professional communication. Examines the new grammar and rhetoric of hypertext, discusses the importance of document planning within an emergent design, and argues for a functional aesthetic. (SR)

Provides guidelines for home page design, and suggests that the physical appearance of a home page is similar to that of a good graphical user interface. In designing a complete home page file, the premise is that basic hypertext design principles could also be applied in the World Wide Web environment. (Author/JKP)

Defines one element of the World Wide Web, the home page, for business communication educators using the World Wide Web in the classroom. (SR)

Explains technology that allows images and sound to be incorporated into microcomputer-based reports or hypermedia programs. Scanners and video digitizers are described that capture images; audio digitizers are described that can add sound; and information is given on vendors for each technology, including price, system compatibility, and…

Describes the visual counterparts of 14 figures of speech and their usefulness to designers of illustrations, visual symbols, and hypermedia. (SR)

Describes international standards for information technology, including an emerging standard for interchangeable multimedia and hypermedia scripts. Highlights include data interchange standards; HyTime (Hypermedia/Time-Based Structuring Language); DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language); SPDL (Standard Page Description…

Discusses how to get started in hypermedia, offering a springboard for beginning hyperdocument developers. Argues that the key is to transfer the familiar to the unfamiliar by adapting paper-document writing processes and by applying the appropriate, familiar page-design principles. (SR)

Compares hypertext with instructional design and development principles and processes. Theoretical foundations for hypertext are discussed, including knowledge acquisition, schema theory, and active structural networks; mapping instructional designs onto hypertext is explained; and hypertext systems are described both as instructional design…

Describes the use of interactive fiction (a form of writing which regularly calls upon the reader to respond in some way) in a first-year writing course on the literature of fantasy. Suggests that this form of writing helps engage students in an encounter with literature, forming a new community of critical and creative discourse. (SR)

Focuses on design issues of HyperCard and introduces a variety of design-related topics to raise issues and to point to resources. (MG)

Relates the author's experiences in teaching technical writing students to use hypertext for the creation of computer-based training in a graduate course in "Online Documentation." Identifies some of the issues and questions for creating a set of rhetorical concepts to evaluate the effectiveness of hypertextual communication. (PRA)

Provides an overview of hypertext for instructors of business and technical communication. Discusses hypertext's definition, uses, advantages, terminology, theoretical bases, essential structure, and associated problems. Notes instructor behaviors that encourage use of hypertext. (SR)

Presents four interstitials, each followed by a contour on understanding the nature of and relationships among different media: the book, electronic text, and hypertext. (NH)

Published studies of hypermedia as an educational technology that have emphasized quantitative and empirical assessment of outcomes were reviewed. The evidence to date suggests that hypermedia benefits in education are limited to learning tasks depending on repeated manipulation and searching of information. Implications for instruction and…

Presents a review of three major strategies for learning and information retrieval useful for learners in coping with typical problems in unstructured hypermedia. Strategies for goal attainment, spatial orientation, and knowledge acquisition are discussed, and future research on learning strategies for hypermedia is suggested. (Author/LRW)