Main criteria: how does this text help enrich, clarify, connect and/or develop your understanding of hypertext, literary hypertext, and the theory surrounding this complex matrix? Note that this project still falls under the EE rubric . . . your goal here is to give in highly compressed form enough information that one of your colleagues can get a very clear taste of the essay's meat and bones.

Procedure: Typically, you'll want to locate a rich, dense, pungent, relevant, exciting, interesting, useful, quirky, evocative, or challenging essay or book chapter. Skim this carefully to see if it will suit your/our purposes. Next, read it well, making notes and gathering not only the general drift of the piece, but its structure, orientation, approach, assumptions, major points of connection with our discourse, etc. Finally, write a summary abstract based on these notes; this AB should be roughly 1-3 pages, single-spaced; create it initially in any mainline word processor, but then "Save As" HTML from within ClarisWorks or WordPerfect in the WCIC, or convert to HTML otherwise.

After you've converted to HTML, then follow these steps:

1. upload to your class web directory
2. follow the link to "Class AnnoBibs"
3. Add a message to the thread there, including a link to your newly uploaded AB. Be sure you click on the HTML button before posting your message, and note that the link will look like this:

   <a http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hthl2/pards/yourdir/ab.html>LinkName</a>

   Notes: Check the calendar for due dates. Also, this form of summary abstract is a longer version of the summary described in this useful disquisition on the making of summaries.