I passed comps!
I passed comps! It’s the official next phase of my Ph.D. program! What are comps? Why is it a big deal? Well, academically, I’m now prepared to do research and start my dissertation. I am now a doctoral scholar contributing to my field, which is adult education. My topic is using poetic inquiry as a theory (yes, there is a theory for that!) for stress management in adult educators, specifically those that are teaching poetry. In the next steps of my research, I will be interviewing poetry professors about their experiences with a qualitative approach, which means I’ll be taking notes, recording one-to-one interviews, and using data to determine how it may contribute to the existing scholarly research and contribute to the field. It can also help with stress management, of course. My comps writing consisted of three papers, up to 17 pages each, on the subjects of theory, scholarly literature, and research methods. Of course, I had to use
