“The ‘new work of composition and production’…is far more complex than knowing how to handle the latest digital technology. The new work of composing, like the old work of composing, is about deciding what you want a text to do, what audience you want to reach, and where and how you want that text to appear. More than that, the new work of composing is about responsibility: understanding new technologies’ countless possibilities as well as its limits…This new work, then, isn’t focused on the technologies of production, but rather the ways in which we apply those technologies.” They also call for more scholarship by asking, “What, we would ask, are our responsibilities with the new work of composing, and how might we see those responsibilities as opportunities to understand more about composition and production of all sorts?”
Additionally, the authors explain the reading has always been hypertextual because readers jump around the page and, occasionally, around the entire text. Thereby, “[i[f the new work of composing is hypertextual, the new work of reading is much like the old work of reading -- highly individualized and often unpredictable.”
**This text is linear, very literally. It have arrows that allows the reader to move the pages up or down, rather than moving side to side like maybe webtexts.