The conceptualization of the positivistic, solitary, stable owner of words and ideas is complicated
by postmodern notions of fragmentation, destabilization, and fluidity. Electronic texts turn on this complication. Texts composed in or for electronic environments have little in common with that bastion of academia, the traditional academic essay. Indeed, digital compositions are so different from traditional forms of text that one might, to paraphrase Slatin (1990), reasonably inquire as to what they are.
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