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Rebecca Walton

Researcher at Utah State University

Publications -  45
Citations -  869

Rebecca Walton is an academic researcher from Utah State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Technical communication & Professional communication. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 40 publications receiving 637 citations. Previous affiliations of Rebecca Walton include University of Washington.

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Disrupting the Past to Disrupt the Future: An Antenarrative of Technical Communication

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an antenarrative of the field of technical and professional communication to encourage the field to embrace social justice and inclusivity as part of its core narrative.
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Values and Validity: Navigating Messiness in a Community-Based Research Project in Rwanda

TL;DR: This article presented fieldwork examples from an interdisciplinary technical communication/medical anthropology study in Rwanda, conveys challenges that the authors encountered during fieldwork and their efforts to turn the messy constraints of community-based research into openings.
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Supporting Human Dignity and Human Rights A Call to Adopt the First Principle of Human-Centered Design

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that technical and professional communication (TPC), like human-centered design, has long been human centric. But TPC struggles with the complexities of determining which humans are at the center of our...