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Chapter 10
The paucity of research on writing or constructing hypertexts indicates a strong need
to analyze both the cognitive and executive processes in their construction to find out,
for example, how they are similar to or differ from writing in other text forms and to
study their cognitive demands and potentials for authors. This chapter presents various
methods for assessing these cognitive processes and discusses their advantages and
disadvantages. It shows that existing methods can be applied to this field, but that ideas
on new methods also need to be developed.