Welcome to the fourth episode of the On the Job w/ The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative podcast! Hosts Nupoor Ranade and Wilfredo Flores continue the interview series by speaking with Dr. Sara Doan, assistant professor of technical communication at Kennesaw State University.

In this interview, Sara talks about her experiences working the first year as a tenure-track faculty member in an R2 university, and what research and teaching looks like in this setting. Sara also discusses her approach to working smarter and not harder and how to maximize the productive interplay between conference presentations, comps exams, literature reviews, and article drafts. She also chats about managing the dissertation workload, offers tips about Skype interviews, campus visits, and job talks, and talks about the value of making a floral wrap dress (with pockets!).

Names of the resources that Sara mentioned are listed below. To learn more about Sara's work, please see her faculty page, and you can also follow her on Twitter. Head over to the Sweetland DRC website to find a transcript of this and other episodes, and stay tuned for the next interview!

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Episode 0: Introduction to the Show

On the Job w/ the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative.By Sweetland DRCMay 27, 2020