SPACE FILLER

Arrangement becomes the instrument of collaboration in a hypertext. Whereas in classical constructs, the author/rhetor organized her ideas in order to fit her conception of the audience's needs--that is, she perceived the audience as being of a certain mindset, thereby "needing" a certain structure to bring them to the author/rhetor's thesis. Logos is gained, in a hypertext, it seems, by the effort that the author makes to provide a series of perceived "choices" for her reader. Readers of hypertexts tend to enjoy the "freedom" they perceive and want while still searching the webtext for a dominant "author's point." Unless the author decides to let make every word within a text a link to an index of all other words in the text, she still exercises control over the reader. If she is careful in placing the links and nodes, she can still maintain some form of argument.