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: