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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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Fiction Writer's Workshop
To be a good writer, you must have the paradoxical trait of being a gregarious loner. Marcel Proust claimed that he...
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English Composition; Simple Book Publishing
This OER textbook has been designed for students to learn the foundational concepts for English 100 (first-year college...
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Rapid Academic Writing
Producing good academic writing is a difficult skill to master, and writing for an academic audience is different than...
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Technical Writing Essentials
This open textbook is designed to introduce readers to the basics of professional communications in technical fields:...
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Standard Ebooks
This is a collection of free e-books that can be used in an English literature class. All of our ebooks are texts that...
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88 Open Essays: A Reader for Students of Composition & Rhetoric
This book is a free and open resource for composition instructors and students, full of essays that could supplement OER...
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Open Modernisms
Open Modernisms is a Creative-Commons-licensed (CC-BY), social-knowledge resource that allows scholars of modernism to...
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LTWR 115: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
California State University, San Marcos has compiled a list of resources used for their LTWR 115: Critical Thinking,...
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ENG 1B Resource List
West Hills College has complied a list of resources used for their Literature/Critical Thinking and Writing course. The...
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88 Open Essays: A Reader for Students of Composition & Rhetoric
This book is a free and open resource to composition instructors and students, full of essays that could supplement OER...
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Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world, study finds
As the Republican-led state legislature has slashed funding to reproductive healthcare clinics, the maternal mortality...
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Representative Poetry Online
Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 4,700 English poems by 723 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English...
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Writing about Literature - Loyola English Department
Material from this webpage will help students write a formal analysis paper about aspects of literature. The main topics...
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OPEN WRITING OER : Angelina Misaghi
The goals of this book are simple: To provide a low-cost, high value resource that addresses the major outcomes of...
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English, Grammar & Writing | Townsend Press
Drawing from years of teaching experience, research-based strategies, and our famously-clear pedagogy, this collection of...
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Focus on 'Henry V'
Focus on "Henry V" is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, digital Open Educational Resource co-authored and co-produced by...
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Make We Merry More and Less: An Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature
'Make We Merry More and Less' is an innovative and intriguing anthology, showing the very wide range of both knowledge...
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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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M. Fernandez - ENG 105A. Accelerated Stretch Composition I Faculty e-Portfolio for California State University, San Bernardino
This open textbook is being utilized in two English Composition courses for undergraduate students by Miriam Lizette...
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O. Mango - ARAB 381: Cultures and Writings of Arab-American Women Faculty e-Portfolio for California State University, San Bernardino
Several open textbooks are being utilized in an Arabic course for undergraduate students majoring or minoring in Arabic...
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J. Perez - ENG 318: Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction Faculty e-Portfolio of CSU San Bernardino (ePortfolio)
These open educational resources are being utilized in an English course for undergraduate students by Jason Magabo...
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Desafíos De La Formación Ciudadana En La Era Digital: Estadodelarte - Open Textbook Library
This course material has been created for the course “Evaluation of comprehension and oral and written production in...
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The Unicode cookbook for linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles
This text is a practical guide for linguists, and programmers, who work with data in multilingual computational...
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BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English - Reader 3
This reader contains nine original stories written specifically for adults, and is designed to accompany the BC Reads:...
New Members
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John MartinUniversity of North Texas
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Denise MillerKalamazoo Valley Community/Technical College -
lou zmroczekReading Area Community/Technical College
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Jorinde van den BergMontgomery College
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Karen HowesLong Beach City College
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April StiglbauerNorthwest Arkansas Community/Technical College
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Noelia EraaEsc 22 DE 16
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Teresa PantaleonCalifornia State University, Long Beach
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Nicole Matchett WagnerUniversity of Minnesota - Crookston
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Julie FerraroFranciscan University of Steubenville
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Tatiana GorbunovaOwens Community/Technical College
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Faith SimpsonLincoln University of Missouri
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Kylee GeorgeJones High School
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Kael MoffatSaint Martin's College
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Metta SámaSalem College
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Michele BynumLong Beach City College
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Janelle PoeCity University of New York System - City College
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Teresita HuntTennessee State University
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Pamela BondSan Jacinto College District
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Rosie BanksCity Colleges of Chicago - Harold Washington College
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Jo LobertiniTusculum College
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mudit shahAZIM PREMJI FOUNDATION
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Chasitie GoodmanTennessee State University
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Scott HigginbothamLouisiana Delta Community College
Materials by Discipline
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English on the Web
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Literature is a vitamin, don't treat it like an aspirin: Akhtar
Sep 21, 2019 02:33 AM PDT
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OS publisher starts poetry society
Sep 21, 2019 02:22 AM PDT
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Rohit Sharma secretly records Shikhar Dhawan practicing poetry, teammates hilariously react
Sep 20, 2019 10:37 PM PDT
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Poetry round-up: Words of wonder for the natural world
Sep 20, 2019 09:52 PM PDT
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First Lyari Literature Festival commences today
Sep 20, 2019 07:15 PM PDT
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Payal MLA launches development works
Sep 20, 2019 06:52 PM PDT
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Cops 'manhandling' case: State BJP chief, Una MLA trade barbs
Sep 20, 2019 06:52 PM PDT
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Guest lecturer gives insight into the process of translating ancient poetry
Sep 20, 2019 06:41 PM PDT
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Loisingha MLA turns teacher
Sep 20, 2019 06:07 PM PDT
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'Difficult to see': MLA Gordon McNeilly weighs in on blackface scandal
Sep 20, 2019 05:11 PM PDT
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Santa Clarita Unveils 2019 Sidewalk Poetry Project
Sep 20, 2019 04:37 PM PDT
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Nuvem MLA awaits PDA chief reward
Sep 20, 2019 04:03 PM PDT
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Noida: Two men 'attacked' in his office, MLA blames djinn
Sep 20, 2019 02:56 PM PDT
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The science, math and literature of cardboard boats
Sep 20, 2019 02:00 PM PDT
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A father's poetry
Sep 20, 2019 01:26 PM PDT
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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month & Poetry 9-19-19
Sep 20, 2019 12:49 PM PDT
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Pargi MLA injured in accident
Sep 20, 2019 12:30 PM PDT
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Penobscot Bay Press
Sep 20, 2019 11:56 AM PDT
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