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ENG 8710 Seminar Paper by Jean Jacobson, June 12, 1995, University of Minnesota

Some Considerations for the Use of Lists as Hypertextual Devices on HTML WWW Pages

Including:

• Brief Historical View of uses of the device of a list:
  index lists, alphabetic lists, bulleted lists.

• Current Practice of list making on the World Wide Web (WWW)
  • Demonstration of possible Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) list making:
    Ordered
     
    Unordered
    Discursive
    Nested Lists
• Sampling of list making recommendations from on-line style guides,
  in order of perceived usefulness to constructing lists:
  1. HTML Style Manual 1
  2. HTML Style Manual 3
  3. Arguments by authors in the field of hypertext theory pertaining to reading and writing HTML lists:
     • Walter J. Ong
     • George P. Landow
     • Myron C. Tuman
     • Richard A. Lanham
  4. Commentary
     • A discussion of naviagation through memory systems from classical antiquity
     • And a disclaimer by an author
  5. Literature Cited

For more information

and discussion on diverse topics related to hypertext don't miss other Engl 8710 seminar papers, spring 1995, and the annotated bibliography complied by the class.

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Jean A. Jacobson, University of Minnesota
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Created June 1995, Last revised 6 November 1995