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Hypertext & Intertext

The document discusses hypertext and intertext, explaining that hypertext allows for non-linear presentation of information through links, while intertext involves incorporating elements from other texts, such as through retelling, quotation, allusion, or pastiche. It provides examples of hypertext and encourages creating a hypertextual poem by adding links to words in an original poem about friendship.

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Hypertext & Intertext

The document discusses hypertext and intertext, explaining that hypertext allows for non-linear presentation of information through links, while intertext involves incorporating elements from other texts, such as through retelling, quotation, allusion, or pastiche. It provides examples of hypertext and encourages creating a hypertextual poem by adding links to words in an original poem about friendship.

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HYPERTEXT &

INTERTEXT
INTRODUCTION
 Reading and writing does not only mean perceiving the world
around us. The process of perceiving embodies the relationship
of a text and another text. Likewise, it deals with reading from
the viewpoint of a research question and actively using what
you read to develop your own analysis and argumentation and
eventually collect materials that you can use in your own
writing.
 Reading and writing go beyond finding the linkage of the
evidence and corresponding texts and identifying and
interpreting possible uncertainties and flaws in the reasoning of
the author. It also means understanding that texts are always
developed with a certain context, thus its meaning and
interpretation are affected by a given set of circumstances.
Moreover, reading now involves a relatively new way of reading
a text online as by the advent of the internet and technology.
 Reading online is a dynamic visual thrill that draws
learners’ attention and engages them in various creative
or vivid ways to learn, apart from the usual physical white
pages. Since the majority of our 21st century learners gain
knowledge from visuals, they learn by reading or seeing
pictures. Thus, online reading is deemed significant for it
triggers one’s imagination, boosts one’s creative thinking,
and builds one’s understanding of the “big picture.”
Today, let us practice our reading skills as we discuss
hypertext.
 Browsers and other similar technology have made it very
easy for readers to obtain the information they want, in
the sequence that they prefer. This is through the use of
links in a digital device which takes the reader into
another text.
HYPERTEXT
 Hyperlink Hypertext is a non-linear way to present information and
is usually accomplished using “links”. Such links help the readers
navigate further information about the topic being discussed and
may also lead to other links that can direct the readers to various
options. Hypertext also allows the readers to create their meaning
out of the material given to them and learn better associatively.
 Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other
electronic devices with references to other text that the reader
can immediately access. Hypertext documents are interconnected
by Hyperlinks, which are typically activated by a mouse click,
keypress set or by touching the screen. Rather than remaining
static like traditional text, hypertext makes possible a dynamic
organization of information through links and connections (called
hyperlink).
 The World Wide Web (www) is a global hypertext system of
information residing on servers linked across the internet.
Hypertext is the foundation of the World Wide Web enabling
users to click on the link to obtain more information on a
subsequent page on the same site or from a website
anywhere in the world. The term hypertext was coined by
Ted Nelson in 1963
 Conversely, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially
termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that
specifies its location on a computer network and a
mechanism for retrieving it. URLs occur most commonly to
reference web pages (http), but are also used for
file transfer (ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBC),
and many other applications.
EXAMPLES
 Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by 
William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance
between two Italian youths from feuding families.
 Beuwulf an Old English epic poem in the tradition of 
Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.
 Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare
 sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's
longest play, with 29,551 words. 
 Annabel lee is the last complete poem composed by
American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems,
it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman
Droplets of Our Lives
 Flicked into the air
far from all others.
Not sure where to go next.
Soaring, Searching
His next destinationUnknownFlying through the air
he looks down
and finds a vacant spot.
Quickly,
before it's too late
he hurries to enter
his new house.

at least for now

At least untilthe next burden comes,


forcing him out.
Altering his path.

again

His place in the world


is locked in.
For now.

With all others


he creates a masterpiece.
the ocean
ACTIVITY
Do this. Hyperpoetry!
 Hypertextual poem are also examples of hypertext in
which readers move from one website to another because
of embedded links in the words, sometimes not returning
to the original pages at all.
Now, it is your turn to start yours.
Directions:
• Write an original poem about friendship. It should consist
of two stanzas.
• Choose 8+ words from the poem that you want to add
hyperlinks.
INTERTEXT
 Intertextuality or intertext is one method of text development
that enables the author to make another text based on
another text. It happens when some properties of an original
text are incorporated in the text that is created by another
author. One good reason why it occurs is perhaps the second
writer is greatly affected or influenced by the first writer
leading to a combination of imitation and creation.
 Intertext or intertextuality is technically defined as a process
of text development that merges two more processes such as
imitation and creation in doing a text. It involves imitation
because the author, as highly influenced by another author
comes up with his version of the text consciously or
unconsciously incorporating the style and other characteristics
of the text done by that author.
 Intertextuality is said to take place using four specific methods namely:
retelling, pastiche, quotation, and allusion.

METHOD DEFINITION

Retelling It is the restatement of a story or re-expression of a narrative

Quotation It is the method of directly lifting the exact statements or set


of words from a text another author has made.
Allusion In this method, a writer or speaker explicitly or implicitly
pertains to an idea or passage found in another text without
the use of quotation.

Pastiche It is a text developed in a way that it copies the style or other


properties of another text without making fun of it unlike in a
parody.
Questions Used to Validate Intertext
1. Are there two or more stories involved?
2. Does the text show direct or indirect
connection to another piece of work?
Note: If the reader has affirmation towards
these questions, the texts he/she is dealing with
contains intertext.

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