Risks/Trade-offs | 8 Levels | Adapting Assignments | Reactions | Suggestions | Works Cited Eight Levels of Electronic Research Papers One strategy that I have implemented in the classroom that seems to have generated a greater amount of excitement in research projects than the traditional research paper has been to introduce the students to a ladder of eight levels of electronic research papers which can be classified into three major categories. I refer to the three major categories as “primitive,” “linked,” and “true hypertext.” * Student Examples: Aimee, Julie M., Amber, Don, Katie, Bryan, Holly, Julie S.