Tag Archives: hypertext
Wikipedia as style guide?
I’ve blogged previously (and here privately) about the trouble I’ve been having with citing sources in online writing in terms of style: Whether to use print conventions or hypertext conventions. The benefit of using print conventions, i.e. APA style, is that there is a style guide, and a strict one at that, standard in the [...]
Hypertext style conventions
I’m facing the decision of whether to hyperlink to the original source or to my end-text referencing in my online writing. Becky pointed out that hyperlinking to the end text reference means that I’d be following print-text conventions whereas hyperlinking to the original source means following hypertext conventions (although these don’t seem to be written [...]
Exploring Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Download a print friendly(er) version of this essay here When I first pitched the idea to develop my doctoral dissertation as a hypertext in website form, I had no idea that this request would be considered unusual. I also had no idea that it had not been done before at my institution (that we know [...]
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