WR 121 Anderson: Creating a Reading List
Longreads Reading List
For this assignment you will be creating a recommended reading list on a topic of your choice. To get started, it will be helpful for you to review a few example reading lists on the Longreads website, here: Reading Lists
Your next step will be to find your own recommended readings. Below are links to magazines with articles that are typically well researched and a bit longer in length. After choosing a topic of interest, you can use these links as starting points for finding articles or book chapters to include in a recommended reading list.
Online magazines you can read for free (with the kind of articles you need)
- The ConversationArticles about current issues in a journalistic style, written by scholars. Lots of topics!
- VoxNews and general-interest content, mostly free. Excellent explainers.
- Knowable MagazineScience journalism -- interesting articles about current research
- NautilusMagazine of science and culture. Subscription option, but you can read some articles without.
- Hakai MagazineMagazine about coastal and ocean issues around British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest in general. Stopped publishing new content in Dec 2024.
Find Books, Articles, DVDs, and more
Browsing Intellectual Magazines at PCC Rock Creek
- New Yorker -- websiteUse the website to see article titles; use the database (next link) to get to full articles.
- New Yorker -- database linkUse this link to search for articles from The New Yorker.
- The Atlantic -- websiteBrowse here; for full articles, go to the database link. There are articles on the website that aren't available through the database.
- The Atlantic -- database linkSearch for articles from The Atlantic here
- The American Scholar -- websiteBrowse, read the first few paragraphs of articles here.
- The American Scholar -- databaseUse this link to find complete articles
- Harper's -- websiteHarper's will allow you to read two articles for free each month. We don't have access through our databases.
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