Landow and Learning

George Landow argues fairly persuasively that hypertext is useful in learning the culture of a discipline because we can switch easily from the principal text to supplementary readings of it.

When using hypertext materials, users experience the way an expert works in an individual discipline. Such a body of electronically linked material also provides the user with an efficient means of "learning the vocabulary, strategies, and other aspects of a discipline that constitute its particular culture"  (Landow 226).

Hypertext offers a means of experiencing the way a subject expert makes connections and formulates inquiries.

George Landow