Couple of comments – all words ARE blue and underlined (conceptually). Every word we use in speech or in text automatically hops around the brain of the listener looking for context. In the pre digital age we had to decide on a specific audience before writing and write to it. If I’m writing about building a front step to my house i decide first whether my audience would need help with the names of the tools. If they do, i write a certain way, if they don’t i write another. Reading was a process of either filling in contexts with dictionaries and other reading or choosing books based on them matching you as an audience.

Digital writing changes that. We can appeal to multiple audiences with proper constructions. multi-level (or different learning styles if you like that language) classes can now be less frustrating because it can be prepared to both appeal to different levels and, with feedback can shape itself into the text it NEEDS to be, rather than what i needed it to be.

Great post. more later on my blog i think. cheers. dave.