It is incredibly easy for pupils in school to quote extensively from a source which they don't identify. Actually, putting things into our own words is a very difficult procedure which requires effort and practice. Hypertext can serve as a rather effortless means of quoting a source, while still leaving that source intact and giving it credit. If pupils learn to view the World Wide Web as an extensive library that contains almost countless sources, and their own writing as an attempt to organize some of those sources into a personal statement, this would be a wonderful achievement of the educational system. Linking from student writing to documents on the web allows pupils to concentrate on the meaning of what they have read, and to determine precisely where in their own writing the original source has the most meaning, is most relevant to what the student wants to communicate. Today, too much pupil time is devoted to attempting to pooly paraphrase something already written. Through linking with hypertext that same time can be better devoted to examining the meaning behind the text.

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