Writing Online

http://designforcommunity.com/

This website is a link to a book by Derek M. Powazek that discusses the type of writing that is done online versus print.  The point that stuck out to me was his argument that writing should not change for the online environment.  His theory is that if writing is good then the reader will not read hypertextually, but will read linearly as in print text. 

http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/6.1/binder.html?coverweb/fitzpatrick

This is a link from the syllabus by Maureen Fitzpatrick.  It discusses reading and writing in the Interactive Media.  A part that stuck out to me was a description of the connection between how websites work and cognitive thinking maps. 

 http://www.hu.mtu.edu/%7Ecandc/archives/v10/10_2_html/10_2_1_Bolter.html

Another link from the syllabus.  This addresses the linearity of print versus the multi-layered aspects of hypertext.  A quote I pulled from the article discusses the communities that are a natural offspring to hypertextual writing, "Hypertext is not only the best compromise for our fragmented community; it is also itself a metaphor for community at the end of the twentieth century. What we have is not a single, organized, regulated community, but a collection of communal interests groups held together by lines of associations that cross and recross."