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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 Cluster
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
Grading rubric for evaluating a short analysis.
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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...
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Writing Unleashed: Reader
This reader contains example genres and strategies, along with example arguments and other general readings. It contains...
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Writing Unleashed: Argument - No Readings
This is the 2019 Version. The textbook has been updated to full accessibility and a CC-BY-NC-SA license. Due to creating...
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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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Larnell Dunkley Jr.City Colleges of Chicago - Harold Washington College
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Cathy ClementsState Fair Community/Technical College
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Sharon WoodallHolland High School
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Wendy HinshawFlorida Atlantic University
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Anna KinneyUniversity of North Dakota
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Loukia JanavarasNormandale Community College
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Delaney AmslerN/A
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Zahira BanuGovernment College
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John MartinUniversity of North Texas
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Denise MillerKalamazoo Valley Community/Technical College
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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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English on the Web
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The Poetry of Carmen Bugan and AE Stallings
Oct 20, 2019 06:31 PM PDT
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'It's poetry, man': How the Colts are redefining how to win as a team
Oct 20, 2019 06:21 PM PDT
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Bus Lines Community Poetry Now Taking Submissions for 2020 Competition
Oct 20, 2019 05:22 PM PDT
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A poem a day keeps the doctor away: prescriptions for everyday dilemmas
Oct 20, 2019 04:03 PM PDT
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New Hampshire Writers' Project: Goffstown author's book links poetry and spirituality
Oct 20, 2019 02:56 PM PDT
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CAB brings open mic to the Bernhard Center with Tea and Poetry
Oct 20, 2019 02:00 PM PDT
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In Maharashtra, your 2014 MLA got rich, richer in five years
Oct 20, 2019 01:00 PM PDT
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BJP ex-MLA's daughter moves Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking protection from family
Oct 20, 2019 11:56 AM PDT
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Canberra poet John Foulcher says poetry even more vital in polarised world
Oct 20, 2019 10:26 AM PDT
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ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals: The First to Qualify From Europe
Oct 20, 2019 09:52 AM PDT
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Great Short Stories: Girls at Play by Celeste Ng
Oct 20, 2019 08:45 AM PDT
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Jhabua bypoll: Indore MLA booked
Oct 20, 2019 08:00 AM PDT
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Maharashtra Assembly Election 2019, Akole profile: Incumbent MLA Vaibhav Pichad joins BJP, to ...
Oct 20, 2019 07:45 AM PDT
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Jiao Tong University poetry winners announced
Oct 20, 2019 07:26 AM PDT
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Maharashtra Assembly Election 2019, Parvati profile: Two-term BJP MLA Madhuri Misal defends ...
Oct 20, 2019 06:38 AM PDT
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Maharashtra Assembly Election 2019, Bhor profile: Incumbent MLA Sangram Thopate to take on ...
Oct 20, 2019 06:28 AM PDT
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Algorithms are grading student essays across the country. Can it really teach kids how to write better?
Oct 20, 2019 06:18 AM PDT
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I Am Teaching My Students to Love Poetry
Oct 20, 2019 06:18 AM PDT
English on Twitter
- Have you booked your flight for #NCTE19 yet? @Delta and @united are offering discounts to attendees: convention.ncte.org/2019-conventio…6 hours ago | NCTE_CCCC
- RT @traveling2008: That moment in the weekend when you realize the goals you set for grading were, shall we say, wildly optimistic. @Acade…12 hours ago | NCTE_CCCC
- In The Mauritian Novel: Fictions of Belonging, Julia Waters analyses how the idea of belonging – a sense of attachm… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…15 hours ago | ModLangOpen
- In this CCC article, "Writing Studies’ Concessions to the English-Only Movement," @flowersks analyzes how public po… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…16 hours ago | NCTE_CCCC
- Have you ever thought about submitting a book proposal for the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric series? Learn more a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | NCTE_CCCC
- Just a few more weeks until #NCTE19! What sessions will you attend? convention.ncte.org/2019-conventio…1 day ago | NCTE_CCCC
- 'Art and Motion: Shen Yuan’s Transcultural Aesthetics' has an @altmetric attention score of 6. Rosalind Silvester's… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | ModLangOpen
- RT @ncte: "I write therefore I am." @rrodrigo (Shelley Rodrigo) shares #WhyIWrite @ncte_cccc youtube.com/watch?v=VfCMY-…2 days ago | NCTE_CCCC
- NCA is pleased to recognize and congratulate Melissa L. Beall, Professor of Communication Studies at the University… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…2 days ago | NatComm
- NCA extends its sympathies to the family, friends, colleagues, and constituents of Rep. Elijah Cummings. Cummings’… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…2 days ago | NatComm