Hypertext Research Papers: Pedagogical Strategies and Possibilities -Wendy Warren Austin, Miami University Lately, I’ve begun to wonder whether research papers which take the form of an argument (most of which do) would adapt very well to hypertext formats. Hypertexts theorists (e.g., Charney, 1994; Douglas, 1997; Kolb, 1998; Landow, 1994; Libby, 1997; Williams, 1999) are divided on whether hypertext is ill-suited for argument or can be adapted to it. I believe that hypertext principles can be adapted to argument strategies although we risk oversimplifying those principles in the transfer to the first-year composition classroom, and in the process, are likely to lose some of the beautiful contortions and cleverly contrived switchbacks that characterize some of the more sophisticated hypertext formats available in literary genres. Instead of expecting miracles from first-year students, we need to introduce them to electronic research writing gradually, adapt to their various abilities, and take their feedback into account when we go back again into the classroom with revised ideas the next semester or term. * Student Examples: Aimee, Julie M., Amber, Don, Katie, Bryan, Holly, Julie S.