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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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LibGuides: Open Readings: English Anthology/Open Textbook
This is a collaborative anthology, comprised of literary selections and contributions from the English faculty. This is...
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Literature, Critical Thinking, & Writing
Lumen Learning provides a simple, supported path for faculty members to adopt and teach effectively with open educational...
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Grammar Slides for English Learners
presentation slides intended for use in an intermediate academic English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom. Each set...
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People and Places: An Intermediate Intergrated Skills Module for English Learners
This module has materials to learn and practice all of the necessary language skills at the intermediate level. Academic...
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Survey of OpenGLAM Open Access Policies & Practices
Survey of OpenGLAM (GLAM=Galleries, Libraries, Archives, & Museums) Open Access Policies and Practices [Excel...
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Open Technical Writing: An Open-Access Text for Instruction in Technical and Professional Writing
This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical...
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Fact and Fiction Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain
Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture...
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Brehe’s Grammar Anatomy
Brehe’s Grammar Anatomy makes grammar accessible to general and specialist readers alike. This book provides an in-depth...
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter Eighteenth–Century British and French Literary Perspectives
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century's two predominant approaches to...
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Thomas Raddall's Short Stories
A collection of previously unpublished manuscripts held by the Dalhousie University Archives.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
ECCO-TCP resulted from a a partnership with Gale, part of Cengage Learning, to produce highly accurate, fully-searchable,...
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Making Nineteenth-Century Literary Environments
Making Nineteenth-Century Literary Environments was offered in the Spring 2017 for English 435 - Topics in Literature of...
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LibGuides: Technical Writing
This is a site put together by a librarian that includes suggested resources for technical writing.
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Writing Boxes: The Reading/Writing Connection in Libraries
Writing Boxes: The Reading/Writing Connection in Libraries is a guidebook and source of programming inspiration for all...
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Browse the Medical Dictionary: Merriam-Webster
For more than 150 years, in print and now online, Merriam-Webster has been America's leading and most-trusted provider of...
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How to Cluster—A Visual Demonstration
Tech Tools Video on how to use the invention technique of clustering to generate ideas for a writing assignment
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Intro to African American Studies Microtheme Rubric.pdf
This is a grading rubric that can be used to evaluate a short, 1 to 2 page typed double analysis in response to a general...
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Front Matter in a Technical Manual
This document describes the front matter in a technical manual written for a one-hundred-level technical writing course.
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Writing Process for a Technical Manual
The writing process for composing a technical manual in a one-hundred-level technical writing course
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English Literature: Victorians and Moderns
English Literature: Victorians and Moderns is an anthology with a difference. In addition to providing annotated teaching...
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Composition and Literature: A Handbook and Anthology
The purpose of this book is to help students achieve the learning objectives of their English 12 course. These include...
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Community Tool Box
The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social...
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the anti-textbook of writing
To download: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JoX94RjwS-WoPnGCyIZ9ZTQeX74iG9hS?usp=sharing
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30+ Reading Activities
Instead of the simple "read this and respond" instructions to students, why not try out a fun reading activity? To...
New Members
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john clarckBronx -
Gena ChattinWV Library Commission
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Nancy ParkerCommunity College of Baltimore County
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Suzanne ObrienSt. Clair County Community/Technical College
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Carrie MillerModesto Junior College
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Bijender SinghCBSE
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Wendy TavennerArlington Christian School
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Jan JarrellSan Diego Community/Technical College District
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Aimee ReederAlameda Middle School
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Tembi CharlesNone
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Liz WinerSamuel Merritt University
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Ivona WalkerAlamance Community/Technical College
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Rosalinda Ramirez-DominguezImperial Valley College
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Kirsten TersteegenSt. Petersburg College
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Jeni McMillinCollin County Community/Technical College
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Meera Modimyfloristdelhi
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Anandit KumarHumorNama
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Juan TorresBacelona
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Alisa FigginsOld Dominion University
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Danielle DiCenzoFrederica Academy
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Angelina MisaghiSanta Monica City College
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derek bergeroswal
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Larnell Dunkley Jr.City Colleges of Chicago - Harold Washington College
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Cathy ClementsState Fair Community/Technical College
Materials by Discipline
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English on the Web
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Amid Decline In Refugee Students, Fort Worth ISD Changes ESL Program
Dec 05, 2019 07:33 AM PST
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Good literature can come in digital forms – just look to the world of video games
Dec 05, 2019 07:22 AM PST
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Vienna-area ESL program seeks participants, volunteers
Dec 05, 2019 05:18 AM PST
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Commercial Fiction Distracts Readers From Fine Literature
Dec 05, 2019 04:00 AM PST
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Abbey Mei Otis Speaks About Poetry
Dec 05, 2019 03:26 AM PST
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Weaving together poetry, sculptures and song
Dec 05, 2019 02:41 AM PST
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Attention poets! Enter this national-level poetry competition to win cash prizes
Dec 05, 2019 02:39 AM PST
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How Clive James' Hong Kong connection inspired his poetry and leaving Australia allowed him to ...
Dec 05, 2019 02:02 AM PST
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Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries open to literature organisations for first time
Dec 05, 2019 01:45 AM PST
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Poet RT Sedgwich to read his poetry Dec. 8 at Municipal Gallery
Dec 05, 2019 01:33 AM PST
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Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie review – weird and wild short stories
Dec 05, 2019 01:00 AM PST
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Esports firm ESL cuts jobs in France and Spain as part of restructuring effort
Dec 05, 2019 12:48 AM PST
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Poetry Anthology Expresses a Range of Emotions for Spanish Readers
Dec 04, 2019 10:56 PM PST
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Write Now: With Scholarly Writing, Different Style Guides Are Valuable Tools
Dec 04, 2019 09:37 PM PST
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Hendersonville High brings literature to life at Medieval Banquet
Dec 04, 2019 09:26 PM PST
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Student Spotlight: An artist of many mediums; from painting to dancing, songwriting, and poetry, UI ...
Dec 04, 2019 09:15 PM PST
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Britain's poet laureate has created a prize to highlight poetry about the climate crisis
Dec 04, 2019 09:03 PM PST
English on Twitter
- The early bird gets the worm. Registration for #4C20 in Milwaukee, WI is open! cccc.ncte.org/cccc/conv40 minutes ago | NCTE_CCCC
- RT @ncte: We are pleased to announce the release of our most recently updated position statement, The Act of Reading: Instructional Foundat…2 hours ago | NCTE_CCCC
- 'Avec Ghérasim Luca (1913–1994), extension du domaine des apatrides' by Serge Martin looks at the radical stateless… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…7 hours ago | ModLangOpen
- In an op-ed for @thehill, Comm Prof Zachary White (@ZMWhite) argues that presidential candidates should weigh in on… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…21 hours ago | NatComm
- In NCA’s newest 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺, @UTAustin Comm Prof Emeritus Richard Cherwitz argues that “our country is confr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…23 hours ago | NatComm
- "To deny the racial nature of politics (and power)—both inside of and surrounding the classroom—is to perpetuate th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | NCTE_CCCC
- By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2019 #MOOC @classcentral buff.ly/35W5sKD https://t.co/tpV4UUJ01P, photo: pic.twitter.com/tpV4UUJ01P1 day ago | MERLOTorg
- Recent research by @KUnews Comm Prof Jeffrey Hall and co-authors suggests that abstaining from social media does no… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | NatComm
- 'Hesitation, Projection and Desire: The Fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s Early Works' examines the sense of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | ModLangOpen
- Comm Prof @rsatchel weighs in on the trope of lightness and darkness: “Understanding the beauty in darkness and bla… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | NatComm