THE WEB ESSAY: EXPLORING ARGUMENTS
- Can you make an argument in a Web Essay?
- Is the title of this essay an oxymoron?
- Must arguments follow a logical, linear progression?
- Or is that something that you're only taught in Freshman Composition?
- Is the real question not "Can you make an argument in a Web Essay," but how can the Web essay redefine argumentation?
- What would these new arguments look like?
- What lies between unity and fragmentation?
- Should we be trying to escape linearity in the Web Essay?
- Is multilinearity new stuff or a recycled print technique?
- What's the difference between threads of linearity and multilinearity?
- What is the relationship between linearity and authority?
- Does argument rely upon authority?
- Does argument establish authority?
- Haven't we theorized the "death of the author" in all media, including print?
- Does that lead to "the death of the reader" in hypertext?
- What types of control can an author exercise in a Web essay?
- Are some types compatible with a new kind of argumentative writing and other types not?
- What meanings does multivocality have in the context of the Web Essay?
- Do links to voices out into the wider WWW make the Web essay a different creature from hypertext essays written in stand alone systems like STORYSPACE?
- What is the relationship between argument and proof?
- In this postmodern world, what is the status of "proof"?
- What should be the goal of argumentation in a Web Essay?
- To argue by exploring?
- To make a claim?
- To establish the basis for future arguments?
- To map the the territory?
- To plow the field?
- Are answers important?
- What other questions should we be asking?
- To fertilize the field?
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