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Welcome to the MERLOT English Portal, an educational resource for teachers and learners of English at any level. You are invited to join MERLOT – it’s free – and contribute to this growing community of English instructors. Feel free to submit your own modules and assignments for evaluation, build collections of content specific to your teaching, and participate in a wonderful community of scholars.
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The visitor will find a collection of links to Internet sites dealing especially with English and American literature. Users can search by single word or by several categories. A list of links to General Sources is also provided.
Literary Resources on the Net in MERLOT
New Materials
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How to Prepare a Presentation
This eBook explains how to create a complete presentation based on your aim, audience, key message statement, and the...
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How to Write a Non-Fiction Book & Get it Published
Whether you are a novice or experienced writer looking for the best way to get your non-fiction book published or someone...
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Writing Non-Fiction Books
Whether you are a novice or experienced writer looking for the best way to get your non-fiction book published or someone...
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The Simplified Academic Proofreader's Manual
Are you a lecturer? A proofreader? A tutor? Or a diligent student seeking to improve their work before submitting? This...
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The Theatre of Shelley
This is the first full-length study of Shelley’s plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulously researched history...
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Essentials of Linguistics
This Open Educational Resource (OER) brings together Open Access content from around the web and enhances it with dynamic...
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Read Faster, Understand More - 2019 OER Edition
This site contains a textbook for students, a textbook for faculty and also slides to use for each chapter. The...
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Adulterous Nations
In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery and how it...
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Adjective attribution
"This book is the first typological study of adjective attribution marking. Its focus lies on Northern Eurasia, although...
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Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance
Within the current discussion on grammatical interfaces, the word-classes of adjective and adverb are of particular...
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Adelaide: a literary city
From the tentative beginnings of European settlement to today’s flourishing writing scene, Adelaide has always been a...
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The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity
The goal of this Research Topic is to shed light on the non-linguistic causes of language diversity, and particularly, to...
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The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers
One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn't suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians,...
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Acoustics of the Vowel - Preliminaries
It seems as if the fundamentals of how we produce vowels and how they are acoustically represented have been clarified:...
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Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity
Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity attempts to make the study of literature more than simply another school subject...
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Literary Skills and the Archive
The following is the table of contents for this book: 1 Sugar Culture in the Hemispheric Americas 2 Personal Narratives...
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Workplace Writing: A Handbook for Common Workplace Genres and Professional Writing
This handbook is designed for a generalized business writing course that seeks to meet the needs of a variety of student...
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Linguistics for Teachers of English
The primary goals of this text are to acquaint prospective teachers of English with certain aspects of the history,...
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Technical and Report Writing
You're probably wondering what this "technical writing thing" is. Someone may even have told you, "It's this course where...
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Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels
In Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand previously unknown instances in...
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Redesigning Assignments for English 113B
As part of the eLearning project, I redesigned two of my course assignments to integrate technologies and apply inclusive...
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Writing Spaces Open Textbook Chapters
This link is to the main website which contains links to all of the material essays. Writing Spaces: Readings on...
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Fronts of Modernism
This book outlines 20th-century collections held at the University of Victoria. Fronts of Modernity was beautifully...
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Entering the Conversation
This collection of readings that emerged out of partnerships between OER enthusiasts, composition instructors at...
New Members
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Estella Gutierrez-ZamanoMount San Jacinto College -
Jessica ToddEast Georgia College
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Sarah ShotlandChatham College
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Kenn BallHigh Point Academy
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Megan CamposLong Beach City College
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Frances DiSalvoCity University of New York System - Bronx Community/Technical College
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Julie BattenSalem State College
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Brandi BurnsFlorida State University
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Sylvia HayesMidlands Technical College
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Jack RyanNames
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Kathy AldenLanier Technical Institute
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Matthew Sterner-NeelyPueblo Community/Technical College
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Heather FergusonSault College of Applied Arts and Technology
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Abigail FordTexas State Technical College - Waco campus
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Matt BoswellMark Twain High School
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Victoria NewtonUniversity of Bristol
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Marci DawsonPrince George`s Community/Technical College
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Amanda MahoneyFramingham State College
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Jody WilsonCommunity/Technical College of Allegheny County
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Anna MillsCity College of San Francisco
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Lisa BartleCalifornia State University, San Bernardino
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Chuck BakerGreenville Technical College
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Christina RauNassau Community/Technical College
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Linda MyersSacramento City College
Materials by Discipline
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English on the Web
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SHORT STORIES: It's The Loneliness That Kills You
Jun 26, 2019 01:48 AM PDT
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Indore BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya thrashes civic officer with cricket bat, says will do it again
Jun 26, 2019 01:05 AM PDT
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Yui Horie Spends A Day as Literature Girl in Her New MV "Asagao"
Jun 26, 2019 12:07 AM PDT
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CMMS' new Poetry Club
Jun 25, 2019 11:22 PM PDT
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AAP MLA Sehrawat moves SC against disqualification notice
Jun 25, 2019 11:11 PM PDT
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The Poetry of Ayat Abou Shmeiss
Jun 25, 2019 09:52 PM PDT
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AAP MLA gets 3-month jail
Jun 25, 2019 07:03 PM PDT
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Second annual 'Sidewalk Chalk Poetry Contest' in Marquette
Jun 25, 2019 06:30 PM PDT
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Local MLA bringing mandatory EpiPens to schools
Jun 25, 2019 04:48 PM PDT
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Man who claimed to be AAP MLA Manoj Kumar's PA gets 1 year
Jun 25, 2019 04:37 PM PDT
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Austin mayor to broaden City Council prayer to include poetry, meditation
Jun 25, 2019 04:22 PM PDT
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Poetry Reading: Gregg Bordowitz
Jun 25, 2019 03:30 PM PDT
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Feminist literature is on the move
Jun 25, 2019 03:18 PM PDT
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25 Wedding Readings From Classic Literature
Jun 25, 2019 02:22 PM PDT
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Lights and Literature: Baltimore Book Festival and Light City combine, seeking community ...
Jun 25, 2019 01:48 PM PDT
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Issue Index
Jun 25, 2019 01:18 PM PDT
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