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'r85RECONFICURINGWRITINGrequires adding features and materials that would be impracticable or impossibleto have in a printed version. Thus, the Storyspace, Microcosm, and WorldWide Web versions of both my Pre-Raphaelite materials and Hypertert containa great many links that serve as cross-references and that provide additional paths through the text, and they have additional images, too. These websalso have elements not found in books, such as multiple overviews that permittraversing them in ways difficult, or impossible, in a print version. A1l thehypermedia translations of Hypertert,for example, contain overviews for bothcritical theory and hypertext, and various versions add ones for informationtechnology, scribal culture, and individual theorists.Perhaps the most obvious difference-in addition to links-between thehypertext and print versions lies in its size: the way links produce an openended,changing, multiply authored Velcro-text appears nowhere more clearlythan in the fact that so much new material appears in Hypefiert in Hypefiertthan in the print version. As one might expect from what I've already written,once I created Intermedia and Storyspace versions for my course on hypertextand literary theory my students read them as wreaders-as active, evenaggressive readers who can and did add links, comments, and their own subwebsto the larger web into which the print has version has transformed itself.Within a few years the classroom version contained five hundred of theirinterventions, criticizing, erpanding, and commenting on the text, often inways that take it in very different directions than I had intended. In additionto some fifty of these new lexias, Hypefiert in Hyperturt contains entries onindividual theories and theorists from The lohns Hopkins Guide to LiteraryTheory and Citicism, edited by Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth, aswell as materials by Gregory Ulmer and facques Derrida. To these materials,we added, with permission, some of Malcolm Bradbury's parodies of criticaltheory and all the reviews the book had received by the time we went into production.These new lexias, which constitute a subweb of their own, serve toinsert other voices, not always in agreement with mine, into the expandedtext. Throughout, the principle of selection was be a cardinal mle of hypertextadaptation-use materials only when they serve a purpose and not justbecause you have them. Hypertext writing, in other words, should be drivenby needs and not by technology.Rules for Dynamic Data in Hypermedia. The preceding pages have focusedon writing hypertext with essentially static forms of data-words, images,diagrams, and their combinations. Kinetic or dynamic information, which