Hi, I am presently in the middle of a "capstone" Master's paper that is turning into something that may make an interesting book with more of an advice-book voice, and a chucking of the Academic paper verbosity.
I would like to rip it up, add more, add personal touches and stories, but use the research and basic writing (with editing towards a general audience).
It would be a small book, maybe 150 pages.
Has anyone done this? I feel that you have to do a lot of research to write a non-fiction book anyway. I might as well try to get more mileage out if this.
A similar book would be "The Gift of Failure" by Jessica Lahey. It has something of the same vibe. It is directed to teachers and parents, and the main question it asks is why the arts are eliminated in school systems when they actually build areas of the brain, and so many other benifical roles in the child's future (creative thinking, self-relience, experimentation, resilience to mention a few).
The word count is at 11,038 so far.
I would like to rip it up, add more, add personal touches and stories, but use the research and basic writing (with editing towards a general audience).
It would be a small book, maybe 150 pages.
Has anyone done this? I feel that you have to do a lot of research to write a non-fiction book anyway. I might as well try to get more mileage out if this.
A similar book would be "The Gift of Failure" by Jessica Lahey. It has something of the same vibe. It is directed to teachers and parents, and the main question it asks is why the arts are eliminated in school systems when they actually build areas of the brain, and so many other benifical roles in the child's future (creative thinking, self-relience, experimentation, resilience to mention a few).
The word count is at 11,038 so far.