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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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Gerard Manley Hopkins: Official Website
From the Landing Page: Our purpose is to serve the needs of students, scholars, and Hopkins enthusiasts, especially...
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Naming the Unnamable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations
Informed by a writing philosophy that values both spontaneity and discipline, Michelle Bonczek Evory’s Naming the...
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Greek and Latin Roots: Part II - Greek
Greek and Latin Roots: Part II - Greek is part two of a two part series. This series examines the systematic principles...
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Greek and Latin Roots: Part I - Latin
Greek and Latin Roots: Part I - Latin is part one of a two part series. This series examines the systematic principles by...
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Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence
Writing in College is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic...
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Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom
Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and...
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Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations
Informed by a writing philosophy that values both spontaneity and discipline, Michelle Bonczek Evory’s Naming the...
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Analyzing meaning: An introduction to semantics and pragmatics
This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a linguistic perspective. It covers a...
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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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Linguistics
This online textbook serves to provide an introduction to the science of linguistics, its major subfields, and its...
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Writing Exercise: Planning Instructions
This is an exercise I created for a Technical Writing class that I teach online. It is an easy knowledge check that...
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Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication
Authors' Description: "In the age of Buzzfeeds, hashtags, and Tweets, students are increasingly favoring conversational...
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British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond
The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you British Literature II: Romantic Era to...
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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present
Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Late Romanticism (1855-1870) Chapter 2: Realism (1865-1890) Chapter 3: Naturalism...
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World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650
Reading about any culture foreign to one’s own tends to create a form of culture shock in the reader. In a...
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Compact Anthology of World Literature
A world literature class may be the first place that some students have encountered European works, let alone non-Western...
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Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication
Authors' Description: "In the age of Buzzfeeds, hashtags, and Tweets, students are increasingly favoring conversational...
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Professional and Technical Writing
This guide to technical writing was created by and for students enrolled in Technical and Professional Writing courses....
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Technical 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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Three Modules on Clear Writing Style: An Introduction to The Craft of Argument, by Joseph M. Williams and Gregory Colomb
Each of the three modules in this series introducing the Little Red Schoolhouse principles aims to do several things:...
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Technical Writing
A textbook focusing on writing in the workplace, with an emphasis on audience analysis, writing for specific situations,...
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Exploring structural element of a short story using semantic web
“Exploring Structural Element Of A Short Story Using Semantic Web” By: Ma. Teresa A. Lopez
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Rhizcomics
Rhizcomics is a digital monograph that composes multimodal arguments about rhetoric and comics. The book presents comics...
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MAKING SPACE
This collection situates space design and digital technologies as deliberate, infrastructural practice. The chapters call...
New Members
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Holly RayFort Hays State University -
Jean GoodrichUniversity of Arizona
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Nils MichalsWest Valley College
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laine lubarOnondaga Community/Technical College
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Jerry kavanaghDelaware TechnicalandCommunity/Technical College
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Lisa LebduskaWheaton College
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Leslie EdmondsVirtual Virginia
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Joanne BenValencia Community/Technical College
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Audra GustinFusion Academy Greenwich
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Sarah KinneJoliet Junior College
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Audrey MorrisImperial Valley College
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Jessica DooleyMemphis
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LARRY MURPHYExcelsior College
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Lillie FloresUniversity View Academy
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Nicole PetersSouthern New Hampshire University
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Jessie HaydenGeorgia Perimeter College
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Angela FurnishSpringdale High School
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Martin GuzmanMartinGuzman
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Christopher AdamsonEmory University
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Luke TrederLuke
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Mercedes SierraMercedes Sierra Mancera
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Diana Young-BlanchardSkagit Valley College
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Christy DavisSan Jacinto College District
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Grant SpathisNEIU
Materials by Discipline
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English on the Web
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Learning Persian must to enjoy sub-continent literature
Oct 20, 2018 05:09 PM PDT
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Calgary names public park to honour late Alberta MLA Manmeet Bhullar
Oct 20, 2018 04:03 PM PDT
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Arab American literature
Oct 20, 2018 02:53 PM PDT
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Kierkegaard, Literature and the Arts. Edited by Eric Ziolkowski
Oct 20, 2018 02:20 PM PDT
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NLNG rewards winners of science and literature prize
Oct 20, 2018 02:11 PM PDT
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Translating Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry
Oct 19, 2018 10:27 PM PDT
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The Poetry of Jane Kenyon
Oct 19, 2018 09:06 PM PDT
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Indore: MLA Sonkar's bro-in-law falls from gallery, dies
Oct 19, 2018 08:56 PM PDT
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Kasargod: Manjeshwar MLA PB Abdul Razak breathes his last
Oct 19, 2018 08:00 PM PDT
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New MLA practice test
Oct 19, 2018 06:34 PM PDT
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