‘Hypertext is a non-linear way to present information and is usually accomplished using “links”. Such links help the readers navigate further information about the topic being discussed and may also lead to other links that can direct the readers to various options. Hypertext also allows the readers to create their meaning out of the material given to them and learn better associatively. Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references to other text that the reader can immediately access. Hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typically activated by a mouse click, keypress set or by touching the screen. Rather than remaining static like traditional text, hypertext makes possible a dynamic organization of information through links and connections (called hyperlink). ‘The World Wide Web (www) is a global hypertext system of information residing on servers linked across the internet. Hypertext is the foundation of the World Wide Web enabling users to click on the link to obtain more information on a subsequent page on the same site or from a website anywhere in the world. ‘The term hypertext was coined by Ted Nelson in 1963. Hypertext allows readers to access information particularly suited to their needs. For example, if a reader still needs more background on a particular item that a text is discussing, such as when a reader does not know a particular term being used, the reader can choose to highlight that term and access a page that defines the term and describes it. Conversely, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages (http), but are also used for file transfer (ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other applications. Most web browsers display the URL of a web page above the page in an address bar. Atypical URL has this form: spe / | sowrw.examy ym/ index.html Protocol File name Host name Today, links are not just limited to text or documents but may also incorporate other forms of multimedia such as pictures, sounds and videos that stimulate more senses. ‘This is called hypermedia. Why hypertexts? + Ina hypertext system, the reader is free to navigate information by exploring the connections provided. + Hypertext is a very different way of presenting information than the usual linear form. + Text no longer flows in a straight line through a book. Instead, it is broken down into many smaller units (lexias, to borrow a term from literary criticism), each addressing a few issues. It acts as a bridge between two basic, opposite, and complementing elements that may be called gender of knowledge representation: free and shortcut Intertextuality or intertext is one method of text development that enables the author to make another text based on another text. It happens when some properties of an original text are incorporated in the text that is created by another author. One good reason why it occurs is perhaps the second writer is greatly affected or influenced by the first writer leading to a combination of imitation and creation.INTERTEXT simply means connection between texts Intertext Defined Intertext or intertextuality is technically defined as a process of text development that merges two more processes such as imitation and creation in doing a text. It involves imitation because the author, as highly influenced by another author comes up with his version of the text consciously or unconsciously incorporating the style and other characteristics of the text done by that author. Elaboration on Intertextuality Intertextuality has its roots in the work of a Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913). Meanwhile, the term itself was first used by Bulgarian-French philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva in the 1960s. Intertextuality is said to take place using four specific methods namely: retelling, pastiche, quotation, and allusion. Method Definition Retelling Tis the restatement of a story or re-expression of a narrative Tis the method of directly lifting the exact statements Quotation or set of words from a text another author has made, In this method, a writer or speaker explicitly or Allusion implicitly pertains to an idea or passage found in another text without the use of quotation. It is a text developed in a way that it copies the style Pastiche or other properties of another text without making fun of it unlike in a parody. Table 1. Elaborating Intertextuality