“All Roads” is what I decided to critically evaluate for this assignment. I feel that this electronic text is a great way to engage the reader in that if you do not follow what’s going on, you have no idea how to get to the next part. However this also works against you in that if you don’t understand what is happening you can not get the next text to read. ”All Roads” is a interactive text where you talk back to the text in order to get the next text.
“Many educators say that our students are less and less able to read, or analyze, or write with clarity and purpose. Who can blame the students? Everything they meet with in the world around them gives the signal: That was then, and electronic communications are now.” [p. 119 Birkerts]
I feel this quote in Birkerts would support my electronic text in that it is using technology to engage the reader into the electronic text in order to understand it.
“If feat is to difficult, spend some time with a novel from the period. Read between the lines and reconstruct. Move through the sequence of a character’s day and then juxtapose the images and sensations you find with those in the life of the average urban or suburban dweller today.” [p. 120 Birkerts]
I feel this quote from Birkert’s would also go with my electronic text in that my text has the author’s soul represented by the program in that it talks back to you and interacts. Allowing you to read between the lines and get a clear picture I feel.
The argument I anticipate is well if the readers confused and is stuck how can he move on. My answer is he can’t, however do you continue to read a novel when your confused and don’t understand it. Well you shouldn’t or else you don’t know what is happening. So “All Roads” forces you to understand what is happening and what to do.
