English Community Portal
Welcome – From the Editor
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.
Showcase
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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English 5130 - Advanced Creative Writing in Specialized Genres
The California State University and MERLOT have partnered to showcase how and why faculty have adopted Open Educational...
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English 310 - Corporate Communication
The California State University and MERLOT have partnered to showcase how and why faculty have adopted Open Educational...
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Elements of Prose Fiction: Quizizz — The world’s most engaging learning platform
Find and create gamified quizzes, lessons, presentations, and flashcards for students, employees, and everyone else. Get...
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Technical Report Writing Guidelines
This document specifies the recommended format to be used when submitting a formal technical report in a variety of...
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Business Communication for Success
Business Communication for Success provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written...
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Business English for Success
This text starts with a solid foundation in written communication with several opportunities to both review the...
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Paradox and Infinity
This course presents highlights of the more technical side of philosophy. It studies a cluster of puzzles, paradoxes, and...
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Writing About Race
Does race still matter, as Cornel West proclaimed in his 1994 book of that title, or do we now live, as others maintain,...
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Creole Languages and Caribbean Identities
Caribbean Creole languages result from language contact via colonization and the slave trade. In this course we explore...
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Seeing the City Afresh
This course explores the city through writing—listening to the voices of poets, short story writers, novelists,...
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Language Acquisition I
This course focuses on the process by which native speakers of a language acquire the ability to speak and understand...
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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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History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to...
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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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Critical thinking: Primary concepts
I’ve been teaching critical thinking for many years, and I’ve developed a short, free, Creative Commons-licensed text...
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An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution
An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the...
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The Word on College Reading and Writing
An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level. The text is...
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Composing Success: Improving Self-Efficacy through Multimodal Compositions
This website is the culmination of a capstone research project for the English Pedagogy and Technology doctoral program...
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Adult Literacy Fundamental English; Reader 6
This reader contains 11 original instructional essays written specifically for adults, and is designed to accompany the...
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Adult Literacy Fundamental English; Reader 5
This reader contains nine original stories written specifically for adults, and is designed to accompany the BC Reads:...
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Adult Literacy Fundamental English; Reader 4
This reader contains nine original stories written specifically for adults, and is designed to accompany the BC Reads:...
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Adult Literacy Fundamental English; Reader 3
This reader contains nine original stories written specifically for adults, and is designed to accompany the BC Reads:...
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Adult Literacy Fundamental English; Reader 2
This reader, written specifically for adults, contains eight chapters about Langston Hughes' family history and personal...
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Adult Literacy Fundamental English Reader 1
This reader contains nine original stories about healing, discovery, survival, relationships, justice, and connections to...
New Members
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Brian CroftWestern Nebraska Community/Technical College
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Carmela CaranyaganMinistry of Education
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Kelly KallnerMadison Area Technical College
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Rebecca QuinnSierra College
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Kathryn OrtizPima Community/Technical College
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Allegra JarvisACE Charter High School
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Candace ReeseCollin County Community/Technical College
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Heather MoultonCentral Arizona College
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Nicholas EnkeCalifornia State University, Fullerton
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Juliann MoskowitzUniversity of Bridgeport
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Rebecca PenroseCalifornia State University, Bakersfield
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Julie DalleyCommunity/Technical College of Vermont
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Laurel JeanCollege of the Redwoods
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Steve MaddenClemson University
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Joel Medina MontenegroPanamerican School of Porto Alegre
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Bridget O'RourkeElmhurst College
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Benjamin TaylorMountwest Community and Technical College
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Kendall DunkelbergMississippi University for Women
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BENJIE TINOYBukidnon State University
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Cheyenne Smithu of people
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Ashley ReignN/A
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Becky BonarekUniversity of Illinois System - Chicago
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Melanie DoverSouthern New Hampshire University
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Ember SmithSpartanburg Community College
Materials by Discipline
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English on the Web
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Another demolition flashpoint as AAP MLA is detained during DDA drive in Kalyanpuri
May 18, 2022 07:38 PM PDT
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Watch: Traffic cop cries before seniors after being snubbed by MLA's supporters in UP's Unnao
May 18, 2022 07:31 PM PDT
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Come meet the local poetry group that's been meeting for years | CraigDailyPress.com
May 18, 2022 06:49 PM PDT
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CBI quizzes TMC MLA Paresh Pal - Millennium Post
May 18, 2022 05:49 PM PDT
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Named in FIR, Rajasthan Congress MLA quits | Cities News,The Indian Express
May 18, 2022 05:42 PM PDT
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See what children have to say about Missoula, through poetry | Montana News
May 18, 2022 05:30 PM PDT
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MLA removed from Sask. legislature during heated session - CTV News Regina
May 18, 2022 05:22 PM PDT
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May 2022 | World Literature Today
May 18, 2022 05:19 PM PDT
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Debate over Sask. mental health, suicide intensifies as MLA curses | Regina Leader Post
May 18, 2022 05:19 PM PDT
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Robert Louis Jackson, Scholar of Russian Literature, Dies at 98 - The Provincetown Independent
May 18, 2022 05:03 PM PDT
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UQP acquires Saleh debut poetry collection | Books+Publishing
May 18, 2022 05:00 PM PDT
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Ex-MLA moves HC seeking restoration of his security | Cities News,The Indian Express
May 18, 2022 04:36 PM PDT
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Spoken Funk introduces limited engagement of poetry and comedy under one roof | Local News
May 18, 2022 04:12 PM PDT
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'The things that matter don't leave you': Poet's Seat Poetry Contest winner ... - The Recorder
May 18, 2022 03:32 PM PDT
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E-Poetry Festival Archive
May 18, 2022 03:09 PM PDT
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2022 ESL Jefferson Award Winner: Teaching kids through robots | WHEC.com
May 18, 2022 03:00 PM PDT
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Coincidence or Not | Cowboy Poetry | tetonvalleynews.net
May 18, 2022 02:48 PM PDT
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Winners of 16th Annual Jim Simmerman Poetry Prize for Flagstaff youth poets announced - KNAU
May 18, 2022 02:18 PM PDT
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Tundra, TSM advance to upper final at ESL One Stockholm - Sportsnaut
May 18, 2022 01:55 PM PDT
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Salem Mayor, MLA inspect Smart City project works - The Hindu
May 18, 2022 01:33 PM PDT
English on Twitter
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