About Michael
Michael Haen has been teaching General Business 360: Workplace Writing and Communication since Fall 2024. He holds a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Before joining the Wisconsin School of Business, Dr. Haen taught undergraduate writing courses at the University of Delaware from 2022 to 2024. He also held an appointment in the Writing Center, mentoring new tutors and leading workshops for graduate student writers. During his graduate work at UW, he held leadership positions in UW’s Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program. In those roles, he consulted with faculty and instructors across campus and led workshops on best practices for designing research, writing, and speaking assignments that promote student learning. While pursuing his Ph.D, he also taught undergraduate writing courses and consulted with graduate students in the Writing Center.
Those past experiences inform his approach to GenBus 360. He uses discussion activities and peer workshops to help students develop their interpersonal skills, and he assigns communication case studies so that students strengthen their abilities to analyze various workplace audiences. Research assignments in his courses help students learn how to critically evaluate professional sources of information in the industries and workplaces that they’d like to join after graduation.
His prior research also helps him support students as they research and learn about the role of interpersonal communication in their future work. His dissertation examined the interactional strategies that writing consultants use to foster positive relationships with students while giving critical feedback (or bad news) to those students about their written work. To help students anticipate similar communication challenges early in their career, he regularly shares insights from experts and reputable researchers who study interpersonal communication in the workplace.
Before joining the Wisconsin School of Business, Dr. Haen taught undergraduate writing courses at the University of Delaware from 2022 to 2024. He also held an appointment in the Writing Center, mentoring new tutors and leading workshops for graduate student writers. During his graduate work at UW, he held leadership positions in UW’s Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program. In those roles, he consulted with faculty and instructors across campus and led workshops on best practices for designing research, writing, and speaking assignments that promote student learning. While pursuing his Ph.D, he also taught undergraduate writing courses and consulted with graduate students in the Writing Center.
Those past experiences inform his approach to GenBus 360. He uses discussion activities and peer workshops to help students develop their interpersonal skills, and he assigns communication case studies so that students strengthen their abilities to analyze various workplace audiences. Research assignments in his courses help students learn how to critically evaluate professional sources of information in the industries and workplaces that they’d like to join after graduation.
His prior research also helps him support students as they research and learn about the role of interpersonal communication in their future work. His dissertation examined the interactional strategies that writing consultants use to foster positive relationships with students while giving critical feedback (or bad news) to those students about their written work. To help students anticipate similar communication challenges early in their career, he regularly shares insights from experts and reputable researchers who study interpersonal communication in the workplace.
Practitioner-Oriented Publications
Haen, M. (2021). Praising Papers, Clarifying Concerns: How Writers Respond to Praise in Writing Center Consultations The Writing Center Journal
Haen, M. (2019). Reported Thought in Writing Center Talk: A Resource for Doing Support and Socialization Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (SALT)