This Electronic (Hypertext) Paper [AKA: E-Paper] assignment has been designed to help you achieve these objectives:

(Objectives 1 & 2) . . . That you can perform these FrontPage 2000 basic operations:

(Objective 3) . . . That  you are trying to take into account cyber-rhetorical principles of effective web communication -- esp. the practical needs of your potential targeted audience of  web users.

Webtip:  This and other course webpages are being updated regularly;
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a.  Hypertext Essay or Electronic Paper
"These are electronic and wired versions of course papers, or topical electronic projects that are the electronic equivalents of traditional papers and projects, except perhaps with hyperlinks, multimedia, and peer critique/intertextuality." [See examples of Electronic Papers]
...From "Constructive Student Projects: Technology and Learning." American Studies Crossroads.  American Studies Association & Georgetown University, 2000-2001.  
<http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/constructive.html> (1 April 2002).

Assignment & Template for Writing an Electronic (Hypertext) Paper <http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/papertwo.html> (1 April 2002).
...From American Literary Traditions (Prof. Randy Bass, Georgetown University)  <http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/Moby.htm> (1 April 2002).
"The class analyzes the themes and ideas that run through American Literature, from Melville's Moby Dick to Toni Morrison's Beloved. In their projects, students use the themes as an umbrella, relating books in the class with images and web sites that address the events described in the books. Supplementary literary commentary helps students discuss ideas particular to American Literature."

Connecting Your Paper with Other Sources or Texts
Another way of thinking about the function of this kind of hypertext, however simple, is that it gives you an opportunity to use your paper as a bridge between the text you're examining and other texts and images that constitute part of its context. For example, let's say that you're writing on Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony. And you want to do an extended analysis of the passage dealing with the Santa Fe Railway calendars, and all that they imply about the romanticization of Native Americans, commercialism, travel, tourism, and cultural survival. Naturally there are some written sources that you would use to inform your analysis, such as the passages we read in class from T.C. McLuhan's Dream Tracks. But there are also some interesting resources online, like the exhibits at the Heard Museum, in Phoenix, Arizona."
...."At the Heard Museum site there is a fairly extensive 'exhibition' on the Fred Harvey company and the marketing of the Southwest. You may well want to use this site as an outside text from which to draw upon in order to enhance your analysis of the Santa Fe Railway calendars in Ceremony and their role in Tayo's dilemma and recovery. In doing this, you would want to do at least two things:

Using Hypertext to Bring Other Texts into Your Analysis
"So far I've been citing examples of using hypertext to create links between your paper and 'sources' that exist elsewhere online. However, I hope that you will explore ways to make these hypertext connections more substantive as well.... you should use hypertexts to link specifically to external links that you want to analyze, or whose analysis illuminates your own text. For example if you wanted to compare Ceremony's discussions of white prejudice's against Indian 'superstitions,' you could draw explicit parallels to Zitkala Sa's "Schooldays of an Indian Girl" located as a link off the Native American Electronic Text Resources; or similarly connect passages and themes from Maus to Holocaust narratives, or even the hundreds of memories and testimonials at the Remembering Nagasaki site."

Playing with Form and Format
"Beyond these uses of hypertext to connect your paper to other texts and to draw concrete connections across texts, there are ways to use hypertext in other creative ways as well. More specifically, you can use hypertext to 'map' less traditional ways of seeing the connections across texts, and less traditional ways of writing about texts in a nonlinear fashion. Let me offer two examples.

"Example #1: Annotated Passages
"What if your paper were a series of richly annotated passages from the book you're analyzing? Across those passages were a series of themes that you might treat in a number of separate documents. For example. You want to closely look at three separate passages from Moby-Dick. The three passages together get at several important big themes: the idea of Providence, human community, and religion. You could create a series of written sections on different key themes, but not necessarily linked in order. One section might be called "Providence", one called "Community", and one called "Religion." Each of these would have a substantive part of your argument, but it wouldn't read in a linear fashion. Or it could read linearly like a regular paper, but you could overlay hypertext links (both internal and external) to enable readers to read in a nonlinear fashion as well. Then you could also have a document that contained the key passages that you wanted to analyze. Each passage could have some explanation beneath it about the role in the book, but there would be other links in the text as well. Here is an example of a fairly simple hypertext project on "Utopia and Dystopia" in the 19th century. It is written in just "two documents": one document has a series of sections on key concepts that he's writing about; the second document has a series of passages with annotations. Throughout the paper he has built in hypertext links across his own argument to show the interrelatedness of his ideas.

"The key to the ability of the reader to navigate this hypertext is the use of both internal and external links. Internal links are the links that target a link to the same page. So, for example, if from this point you wanted to read the Overview again, or the section on "Connecting your paper to other sources" you can simply click on these links that are targetted--not outside the document--but within it.

"Example #2: 
"A second example of writing a nontraditional paper that plays with form and format would be this. This is a really a variation of the above without the annotated passages. In this case, you would write your sections on key ideas as a series of short documents. There might be an overview page, then a series of four or five other pages. There might be a linear argument that could be followed with a series of 'next' buttons, but also many options for jumping around, both internally and externally. In this way your paper becomes . . . a combination of a narrative line forward and many digressions and spirals leading in different directions. See below for examples of this kind...."

...From Assignment & Template for Writing an Electronic (Hypertext) Paper <http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/papertwo.html> (1 April 2002).