The Question | Two Paths | Remediation | Recommendations | Works Cited Remediation In Remediation: Understanding New Media, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin advance the concept of "remediation" in which newer media "define themselves by borrowing from, paying homage to, critiquing, and refashioning their predecessors [...]" (Bolter, Writing Space 2nd ed., 24). In that text, Bolter and Grusin offer examples from new media like computer graphics and the World Wide Web in which they have borrowed from older media like film and photography to create themselves. In Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print (2nd ed.), Bolter extends the concept of remediation to include the transition from the print-age to an electronic, hypertextual age: "Hypertext in all its electronic forms – the World Wide Web as well as the many stand-alone systems – is the remediation of print" (42).           More than simply borrowing, remediation "involves both homage and rivalry, for the new medium imitates some features of the older medium, but also makes an implicit or explicit claim to improve on the older one"  (Bolter, Writing Space 2nd ed., 23). For example, many of us claim that electronic communication in general will help us communicate more quickly, and thereby more intimately (given the intimacy of synchronicity), and hypertextual writing can increase moreso that sense of intimacy by offering the reader a high degree of interactivity. And because we believe that hypertextual writing is better in the "run-faster, jump-higher" sense than traditional print texts, many of us have added hypertextual writing to our courses' content, which is what brought me to my initial questions. By applying the concept of "remediation" to individual texts, one can see that the process of translating a traditional print text to a hypertextual document is a remediation both in the sense of borrowed conventions and improved ones.           In a variety of ways, I work to demonstrate and have students apply remediation to show that "Writing Rules – on the Page and on the Web."