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Richard Johnson-Sheehan

Arts and Humanities · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1994
Rhetoric and Communication StudiesLanguage, Metaphor, and CognitionClassical Antiquity StudiesDiscourse Analysis in Language StudiesEvolution and Science Education

Publications

19

Citations

185

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

31

Publishing since 1994

Research summary
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Richard Johnson-Sheehan studies rhetoric (the art of persuasive and effective communication) with particular attention to business and technical writing, the ethics of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, classical philosophy, and health-related communication. His work often examines how language and argument function in professional, historical, and medical contexts, and he has also written widely used writing textbooks.

Rhetoric and communication theoryBusiness and technical writingEthics of AI and technology in communicationClassical rhetoric and philosophyRhetoric of health and medicine

Publication output has been low and irregular over the last decade, typically producing zero to two publications per year with no clear growth trend.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.4/year recently
2017: 1 publication1718192020: 2 publications2202021: 1 publication21222023: 1 publication232024: 1 publication242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Business and Technical Communication×2
  • Technical Communication Quarterly×1
  • The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado eBooks×1
  • Philosophy and Rhetoric×1
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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