Argues that those who would create a rhetoric for hypertext must be prepared to thoroughly reconsider their subject and that the rhetoric of hypertext may turn out to be inseparable from the constructive process that motivates hypertext. (SR)

Examines persuasive text, first describing it and discussing it with reference to relevant philosophy and rhetoric, and then asking whether it is successful: do written texts change the minds of their readers? Notes that research on designing text to disabuse students of scientific misconceptions points to text features that authors could use to…