Since I have written elsewhere about the modes of presenting argument in hypertext, writing this hypertext put me in an awkward position. Assembling portions out of a book text, I found that the argument wanted to be in a fairly conventional structure of pyramid outlines, where each text node contained standard argumentative paragraphs, with links to prose expositions. Since I wanted the argument in the hypertext to be available to people who weren't familiar with the medium, I was content to have this structure available, but I supplemented/surrounded it with other structures and modes of presentation.
The audience for a hypertext such as this is difficult to predict but will not all be familiar with the twists and turns of hypertext rhetoric. My general prescription for this is that a hypertext can contain different forms at the same time, since the forms come from link patterns and different sets of links can coexist.
Large parts of this hypertext are still not too "hypertextual," in the sense of that term used in literary theory, but hypertext is not a single-ply genre with a single essence that must be obeyed. Most of the links in this text are straightforward expositional connections with some more associational jumps. Most of the argumentative work is done in the nodes rather than by chains of links. Even so, there is more than one voice at work.
(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001