Hypertext thinking vs. Linear thinking

"Critical thinking is careful and deliberate determination of whether to accept, reject, or suspend judgment" (Moore and Parker, 1994). This statement represents the biggest disparity between hyper-textual thinking and regular linear thinking. When writing in hypertext one must carefully judge the worthy information that they are going to write. Only the most important, original, and succinct ideas going to hypertext writing, and that differs from linear writing. In linear writing one takes all of the information and jumbles it together because they need to portray a large picture. But in hypertext one's goal is to give an accurate picture of just one piece of the overall puzzle. Along these lines is the idea of "the art of thinking about your thinking while you are thinking in order to make your thinking better: more clear, more accurate, or more defensible" (Paul, Binker, Adamson, and Martin 1989). This idea contradicts the practices of "smash and grab" writing, where one develops a thesis and then sets out to prove it's true against all opposition. Hyper-textual writing is a move away from this. In hypertext, one researches a topic and then comes to their view point. "The purpose of critical thinking is, therefore, to achieve understanding, evaluate view points, and solve problems" (Maiorana, Victor P. Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum: Building the Analytical Classroom. 1992). This idea shows that hypertext is the development of a point of view, not an argument or persuasion.