Richard Johnson-Sheehan

Ph.D., Rhetoric and Professional Writing, Iowa State University, 1995

Richard Johnson-Sheehan is a Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing. He researches and publishes on communications in science, technology, entrepreneurship, medicine, and healthcare. He specializes in technical proposals, grants, and business models for start-ups. Johnson-Sheehan has collaborated with and consulted for a broad range of enterprise and small businesses and organizations, including Intel, the Indiana Department of Transportation, Sumitomo, the United Way, Sandia National Labs, Lockheed, University of New Mexico Hospital, Pearson Educational, Integrated Robotics, among others. Johnson-Sheehan is the author or co-author of several popular college textbooks, including Technical Communication Today (7e), Writing Today (5e), Argument Today (2e), and Technical Communication Strategies for Today (3e), as well as Writing Proposals (3e). He proudly earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Professional Communication from Iowa State University, a land grant university.