Good Essays Exploring Personality-Related Topics

The essays I'm sharing in this post are professional, noted pieces of non-fiction journalism. They are not scholarly, per se, but definitely work with multiple sources and are good examples of how to organize and give purpose to readers in a piece of writing. They might spark ideas for your project, since they too treat the topic of personality in their own way, but what we'll talk about are the clarity of structure, the ways that sources are brought into the conversation, and what the writer is putting on the table for us to ponder:

• Megan McArdle's piece for Bloomberg View, "Seven Reasons We Hate Free Range Parenting"
• Will Storr's piece for Mosaic, "The Male Suicides: How Social Perfectionism Kills"