A basic reality of electronic classrooms is that computers increasingly enable textual transactions. Readers and writers of hypertext are offered tools that allow them to find a number of alternate paths through their text-based experience. How a screen appears, and in what order screens appear, is no longer produced by turning pages, and how writing happens in a classroom is not a simple, linear, univocal experience. Hypertext adds new dimensions to our reading and writing transaction. Robert Coover describes this process in his essay, “The End of Books”: