From her early experiences with hypertext, Marshall discovered the negative effects of having analysts work with formal representation.
Marshall learned that information which does not fit in formal representation gets lost as people try to force it into this area.
Cathy Marshall was also an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at Texas A&M University.
[5] Between 1993 and 1996, while working with PARC, Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall collaborated on Forward Anywhere: Notes on an Exchange between Intersecting Lives, a hypernarrative work based on electronic communication that passed between the two in which they sought "to exchange the remembered and day-to-day substance of our lives".
[6] In the essay, "Closure was never a goal in this piece," the two, (Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall) share their experiences and thoughts about collaborating in "Forward Anywhere," excerpts of which can be found in the site itself.