About the Director and Senior Instructor,
Dr. Robert Hogan

Robert Hogan, PhD

Instructor

Experience in Training and Administration

  • Director, the Business Writing Center
  • Professor of Business Communications, Illinois State University
  • Director, Softlink (contract writing company)
  • Manager of Communications, Bank Illinois Company
  • Senior Staff Writer, Applied Science Associates (consulting company)
  • Director of Adult Extension Studies, Wheaton College
  • Professor of Writing, University of Pittsburgh
  • Professor of Writing, Allegheny County College

Articles and Papers on Teaching Writing

Dr. Hogan’s articles on the teaching of writing have appeared in the following publications:

Experience

  • College Composition and Communication
  • Ontario Universities Program for Instructional Development Newsletter
  • Proceedings of the National Conference on College Composition and Communication
  • Proceedings of the Midwest Regional Conference on English in the Two-Year College
  • Research in the Teaching of English
  • English Education

With the Business Writing Center, Dr. Hogan has taught business people from over 8,000 companies. Before coming to the Business Writing Center, Dr. Hogan was a consultant writing for the following companies and government agencies:

User’s Guides

  • American Transtech
  • Ameritech
  • AMOCO
  • AT&T
  • BankIllinois Company
  • GE
  • GTE
  • Caterpillar
  • Computer Teaching
  • Corporation
  • Contel
  • Cyborg
  • Datacron
  • Funk Seeds International
  • Illinois Farm Bureau
  • RLI
  • Software Dynamics

Training Materials

  • Applied Science
  • Associates
  • AT&T Information
  • Systems
  • BankIllinois Company
  • Chicago Medical School
  • Country Companies
  • Insurance
  • Development
  • Dimensions
  • International
  • LPC
  • McMaster University
  • NCR Corporation
  • Ontario Department of
  • Labour
  • Prevention First
  • Incorporated
  • School of Related Health
  • Sciences
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Extension Studies
  • Program
  • U.S. Army Corps of
  • Engineers
  • U.S. Bureau of Mines
  • USDA Natural Resources
  • Conservation Service
  • USDA Cooperative
  • Extension Service
  • Wheaton College
  • W.W. Grainger

Marketing/Public Relations Pieces

  • BankIllinois Company
  • CH Publications
  • Ft. Drum
  • Singles Rendezvous
  • U.S. Army Corps of
  • Engineers
  • U.S. Air Force

Multimedia Systems

  • American Cyanamid
  • AT&T
  • BankIllinois Company
  • Dupont
  • Eli Lilly
  • Ft. Knox
  • Ft. Stewart
  • JNL Insurance
  • List Processing
  • Corporation
  • Medcom Systems
  • Meridian Education
  • Corporation
  • OSF Health Care Systems
  • Phoenix Publishing
  • Sangamon County
  • Republican Party
  • U.S. Army Corps of
  • Engineers

Computer-Based Training

  • AT&T Information Systems
  • Caterpillar
  • Country Companies
  • Medcom Systems

Publishing

  • AAUG (monthly journal, book)
  • CH Publications (books)
  • Sangamon County
  • Republican Party (monthly newspaper)
  • Singles Rendezvous (monthly newsletter, monthly magazine)

Bulletin Board Systems

  • PicDirect

Internet Page

  • Starnet Publishers
  • Magna Plastics
  • Singles Rendezvous
online business writing workshops

The Business Writing Center’s highly trained instructors with backgrounds in higher education teach the latest best practices that we know enable business writers to write documents that are clear and have impact.

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