I am interested in situated, contextualized communication—both the generation of oral, visual, and written artifacts and others’ interpretations of these artifacts. While I continue my long-term interest in collaboration, I am currently interested in risk communication, especially the ways that texts and visuals about health and safety influence responsibility and action.

Books

College and Professional Communication Textbooks

Burnett, Rebecca E.  Technical Communication

• 6th Edition, Boston: International Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005.
  (838 pages)
• 5th Edition, Dallas/Forth Worth, TX: Harcourt, 2001. (815 pages)
• 4th Edition, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth,1997. (738 pages)
• 3rd Edition, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth,1994. (742 pages)
• 2nd Edition, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth,1990. (668 pages)
• 1st  Edition, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth,1986. (622 pages)

Ewald, Helen Rothschild, and Rebecca E. Burnett. Business CommunicationEnglewood Cliffs, NJ:Prentice-Hall, 1997.   

Carosso, Rebecca Burnett, and Judith Stanford. The Writing Connection. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1983. 

Co-Edited Volume (Refereed)

Flower, Linda, David L. Wallace, Linda Norris, and Rebecca E. Burnett, eds. Making Thinking Visible: CollaborativePlanning and Classroom Inquiry.  Urbana, IL:NCTE, 1994.  (One of four editors forthis culminating volume of four-year teacher-researcher project funded by theHeinz Foundation.)

Secondary Literature and Writing Textbooks

Burnett, Rebecca E., and Elizabeth Foster.  American Persona.  Littleton, MA: Sundance, 1988.

Burnett, Rebecca E., and Elizabeth Foster.  Shakespeare Persona.  Littleton, MA: Sundance, 1988, 1985.

Articles in Refereed Journals  

[in press] Burnett, Rebecca E. and ChristineHaas. “Explicating “Writing as an Embodied Practice” A Conversation BetweenRebecca E. Burnett and Christina Haas.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication 21.1 (January 2007):  1-9.

Burnett, Rebecca E. “Document Testing.” TheBulletin of the Association for Business Communication 57.4  (December 1994): 47-58.  

Burnett, Rebecca E., and Helen Rothschild Ewald. “Rabbit Trails, Ephemera, and OtherStories: Feminist Methodology and Collaborative Research.” Journal of Advanced Composition 14.1(1994): 21-51.

Burnett, Rebecca E., and Ann Hill Duin. “Collaboration in Technical Communication: AResearch Continuum.”  Technical Communication Quarterly 2.1(Winter 1993): 5-21.

Burnett, Rebecca E. and Elizabeth Foster. “‘The Role’s the Thing wherein to Catch. . .’ : The Power of Persona in Shakespeare.”  English Journal 82.6 (October 1993): 69-73. 

Burnett, Rebecca E.  “Cooperative, SubstantiveConflict in Collaboration: A Way to Improve the Planning of Workplace Documents.” Technical Communication 38.2 (November 1991): 532-539. 

BookChapters

[in press] Miles,Katherine M., and Rebecca E. Burnett. “The Minutia of Mentorships: Up Close and Personal Reflections about Professional Development.” Eds. Michelle F. Eble and Lynée LewisGaillet. Stories of Mentoring. Parlor Press.

Zeleznik, Julie M., Rebecca E. Burnett, Thomas Polito, David Roberts, and John Schafer.“Managing Disciplinary Difference.”  Ed.Chris M. Anson. Writing Making Learning:Cross-Curricular Scenes for Reflection and Faculty Development. Oxford UniversityPress, 2002. 49-52.

Zeleznik, Julie M., Rebecca E. Burnett, Thomas Polito, David Roberts, and John Schafer.“Ranks, Roles, and Responsibilities: Crossing the Fine Lines in Cross-disciplinary Mentorship.” Ed. Chris M. Anson. Writing Making Learning: Cross-Curricular Scenes for Reflection and Faculty Development. Oxford UniversityPress, 2002. 227-236.

Burnett, Rebecca E., Christianna I.White, and Ann Hill Duin.  “LocatingCollaboration: Reflections, Features, and Influences.”  Theory,Practice, and Program Design in Technical Communication: Foundations for Teaching an Emergent Discipline.  Ed.Cezar Ornatowski and Katherine Staples. Norwood, NJ:  Ablex, 1998.133-160.

Burnett, Rebecca E., and David Clark. “Shaping Technologies: The Complexity of Electronic Collaborative Interaction.”  Computers and Technical Communication.  Ed. Stuart Selber. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1997.171-199.

Burnett, Rebecca E., and Lee-Ann Marie Kastman. “Teaching Composition: Current Theories and Practices.” Handbook of Academic Learning: TheConstruction of Knowledge.  Ed. GaryPhye. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1997.  265-305.

Burnett, Rebecca E. “‘Some People Weren’t Able to Contribute Anything but TheirTechnical Knowledge’:  The Anatomy of aDysfunctional Team.”  Nonacademic Writing:  Social Theory and Technology.  Ed. Ann Hill Duin and Craig Hansen.Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1996. 123-156.

Burnett, Rebecca E. “Conflict in Collaborative Decision-Making.” Professional Communication: The Social Perspective. Ed. Nancy Roundy Blyler and Charlotte Thralls. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993.144-162.