Papers by Rebecca E Burnett
Decision-Making During the Collaborative Planning of Coauthors
... in less substan-tive conflict (and relatively more elaborations of a single point) produced l... more ... in less substan-tive conflict (and relatively more elaborations of a single point) produced lower quality documents (Burnett, 1991; Burnett, 1992). ... In the following excerpt, Josh and Pete presents alternatives about fonts, certainly a legitimate concern when design-ing a document ...
Birthing Genre: Conventions of Rhetorical Situation and Accessibility of Information in Midwifery Manuals
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Dec 20, 2023
Student Attitudes About Teamwork in Face-To-Face and Blended Technical Communication Classes
Blended Learning in Practice
Guest editor's column
Technical Communication Quarterly, 2000
From the Ground Up: Shaping Community, Collaboration, and Multiliteracies at Georgia Tech
This chapter discusses three dynamic spaces of the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia I... more This chapter discusses three dynamic spaces of the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech): the Laptop Classroom in the Skiles Classroom Building, the Communication Center in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, and the Stephen C. Hall Building. The authors recount how these spaces were deliberately designed by and for them. They describe how they worked with designers, architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and information technology experts in the planning and design stages to match the physical spaces with the Writing and Communication Program’s philosophy, pedagogy, and research practices. This chapter focuses on physical and digital affordances that contribute to the Writing and Communication Program’s core philosophies of rhetoric, process, and multimodality. It also offers implications and conclusions flexible enough for readers at a range of other institutional contexts to consider and apply
The English and technical communication department offers a master's degree in technical comm... more The English and technical communication department offers a master's degree in technical communication (either online or traditional) for any student with a bachelor’s degree in any discipline and a strong background in writing and technology. Because of the rapid changes in technology, particularly due to the effects of information systems, there is an immediate and growing need for highly trained professional communicators to design information. Employers are looking for communicators with sophisticated skills in the integration of visual communication tools with written and spoken communication.
Book Reviews : Technical Communication. Rebecca Burnett Carosso. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Press, 1986. Reviewed by Carole Huber Elizabethtown College
Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1987
telecommuting remains the most &dquo;futuristic&dquo; of the technologies discussed. As w... more telecommuting remains the most &dquo;futuristic&dquo; of the technologies discussed. As with the other essays, however, an updated treatment of this subject would be a welcome resource. The most comprehensive article in the collection, &dquo;Automating the Small Business Office,&dquo; by Peter B. Clarke, is also the most useful, at least to the business reader. Clarke’s essay discusses the needs-assessment process that a small business must undertake in planning to automate. The essay also offers specific advice about evaluating vendor support and includes suggestions for using vari-
Visualizing Public Health Risks: Graphical Representations of Smallpox in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries
Routledge, Jul 5, 2017
Co-authored with Rebecca E. Burnett This chapter analyzes selected graphics depicting smallpox ep... more Co-authored with Rebecca E. Burnett This chapter analyzes selected graphics depicting smallpox epidemics created in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, examining some of the historical and cultural factors that influenced their creation. Rather than adhering to established visual genres for representing quantitative information, which only began to emerge in the early nineteenth century, we argue that the creators of these early depictions engaged in three rhetorically driven tasks—correlation, location, and value—that facilitated and shaped risk perception in the field of public health and epidemiology.
Peer Feedback in Linked Courses: Perceptions of Benefits and Problems
2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)
State of the Field: Teaching with Digital Tools in the Writing and Communication Classroom
Computers and Composition, 2019
Abstract Recent rapid technological change has influenced the ways writing and communication teac... more Abstract Recent rapid technological change has influenced the ways writing and communication teachers and students use digital tools in their classrooms. We surveyed 328 writing and communication teachers about their use of digital resources in the classroom, in planning, and in course management. Our study finds that over one-third of teachers either teach themselves or use their existing knowledge to support digital pedagogy; learning management systems are used overwhelmingly to distribute materials; teachers perform a range of teaching tasks with both digital and non-digital tools; and teachers often depend on familiar, commonly available resources to perform teacher and learner actions. We recommend that the field should offer more targeted training for writing and communication teachers about the use of digital resources, support development of a repository of crowdsourced best practices, advocate for teachers to become stakeholders in the development and selection of digital resources to encourage more deliberate and targeted use of digital tools, and systematically collect information about digital resource use in the field.
Rabbit Trails, Ephemera, and Other Stories: Feminist Methodology and Collaborative Research
JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory
Explores the intersections between feminist methodology and collaborative research to identify fl... more Explores the intersections between feminist methodology and collaborative research to identify flashpoints that might derail attempts at collaboration. Analyzes the personal experiences of the authors in four ongoing collaborative research groups. (HB)
Substantive Conflict in a Cooperative Context: A Way to Improve the Collaborative Planning of Workplace Documents
Technical Communication, 1991
Abstract: Offers research-based advice on how to promote effective collaboration in writing proje... more Abstract: Offers research-based advice on how to promote effective collaboration in writing projects:(1) delaying consensus;(2) engaging in substantive conflict while avoiding affective and procedural conflict; and (3) operating in a cooperative rather than competitive climate. ...
Explicating “Writing as an Embodied Practice” A Conversation Between Rebecca
supplemental/) as I sit in a wireless café in Norway. It is nearly 10:00 p.m.; dusk will be falli... more supplemental/) as I sit in a wireless café in Norway. It is nearly 10:00 p.m.; dusk will be falling within an hour or two, and I am rereading this article for perhaps the eighth time. But I am reading it for the first time with a good friend, an engineer who is highly engaged in the article, responding to the notion of embodiment as critical in engi-neering expertise, commenting that the article is easy to read, rele-vant, and interesting and that it captures important ideas. That alone—an engineer voluntarily reading an article about rhetoric and technical communication and commenting positively about that arti-cle’s value—should signal something special about it. But that is not as and Stephen P. Witte’s article to anniversary issue. Five years after its ncil of Teachers of English (NCTE) f JBTC (for best collection of essays in nication) edited by Davida Charney, this article remains important in two ways: in its contribution to dis-l for exemplary multi-hat is presented with spn...
Substantive Conflict in a Cooperative Context: A Way to Improve the Collaborative Planning of Workplace Documents
Technical Communication, 1991
Careers for Number Crunchers & Other Quantitative Types
Discusses the education, training, and skills needed for careers involving the use of quantitativ... more Discusses the education, training, and skills needed for careers involving the use of quantitative techniques and describes a variety of career choices, including market research, information analysis, demography, engineering, and financial management.
This chapter describes ways our Georgia Tech Writing and Communication Program fosters innovation... more This chapter describes ways our Georgia Tech Writing and Communication Program fosters innovation and argues that any writing, writing-across-the-curriculum, or English-across-the-curriculum program can nurture similar innovation appropriate for their local institutions and communities. We argue that faculty members who practice innovation transform themselves as well as their environment, benefiting students and, often, their community partners. We begin by presenting background information about our program; we then argue that our two-part programmatic mission—one part focusing largely on our responsibility to faculty and another part on our responsibility to students—creates a space for innovation. We then discuss five characteristics of faculty-centered professional development: professional culture, working conditions, expertise, long-term careers, and an exploratory mindset. The penultimate section discusses five characteristics of teaching and learning: rhetoric, process, mul...
Shaping technologies: The complexity of electronic collaborative interaction
Computers and …, 1997
7 SHAPING TECHNOLOGIES: THE COMPLEXITY OF ELECTRONIC COLLABORATIVE INTERACTION Rebecca E. Burnett... more 7 SHAPING TECHNOLOGIES: THE COMPLEXITY OF ELECTRONIC COLLABORATIVE INTERACTION Rebecca E. Burnett Iowa State University David Clark ... In fact, Galegher and Kraut (1990) argued that" creating practical information technology requires not only technical ...
Reviewing the Practice of Document Testing
Business Communication Quarterly, 1994
Page 1. 47 DOING RESEARCH A Column Sponsored by the ABC Research Committee Jone Rymer, EDITOR Way... more Page 1. 47 DOING RESEARCH A Column Sponsored by the ABC Research Committee Jone Rymer, EDITOR Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan IN THIS ISSUE Document Testing: Planning, Training, and Implementing ...
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