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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
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Annotated Bibliographies
As annotated bibliographies (ABs) become more commonly assigned, it is important to not only know what they are, but why...
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Museindia-Slices of Life
Poetry expressing slices of life...
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Passive and Active Voice
In the Writing Strategies series, Peer Learning Facilitators from the UCLA Undergraduate Writing Center give their top...
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Open Scholarship Knowledge Base
The Open Scholarship Knowledge Base contains resources created, curated, and contributed by the Open Scholarship...
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How Comics Work
An introduction to the literary form of comics - as a comic! Introducing and defining key concepts in comic studies, as...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: Can Humans Defy Aging and Conquer Death?
This video offers a summary and analysis of the main themes in the Epic of Gilgamesh. The world’s first recorded epic...
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Breaking Down Your Prompt
This fillable Google Doc helps you break down any prompt into its main tasks and requirements, list helpful resources and...
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Writing LCC - An Anthology of Student Writings
The writings in this book were collected from students and their professors at Lansing Community College. The requirement...
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Integrating ICT into English
This website provides many activites to integrate ICT into English curriculum of reading and writing.
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Draft Course Design.pdf
This document is a draft of a Business Writing course design for fall 2020. Its goal is to map out a possible delivery...
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Research for College Students
Presents the research process for lower-level undergraduate students: developing topics, understanding sources,...
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Composition 150: Rhetoric and Research
This is a collection of readings for Composition 150: Rhetoric and Research, which introduces students to the discipline...
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A Digital Workbook for Beginning ESOL
This book contains three levels of interactive grammar lessons and reading activities for beginning students of ESOL...
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Open Research Library: Open Access Books
The Open Research Library (ORL) will eventually contain a scholarly collection of 20,000+ Open Access books available to...
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Writing Conclusion Paragraphs
In the Writing Strategies series, Peer Learning Facilitators from the UCLA Undergraduate Writing Center give their top...
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Writing Topic Sentences
In the Writing Strategies series, Peer Learning Facilitators from the UCLA Undergraduate Writing Center give their top...
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Student Opinion: NYTIMES
Daily questions inspired by Times content from across sections. Join the conversation!
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Teaching Poetry Online | Poetry Foundation Archive
The Poetry Foundation Archive contains thousands of poems and poetry-related features. Among its collections is "Teaching...
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A Short Handbook for writing essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences
A retired master teacher of English and Comparative Literature teams up with his son, a History professor, on a new...
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Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction
Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction addresses the questions and decisions that administrators and...
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News Literacy Lessons - NCTE
This web page is adapted from a blog from the News and Information Literacy Professional Learning Community on the...
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Expression and Inquiry
Users of Expressions and Inquiry will note that it has three major sections—Section One which primarily focuses on the...
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Thesis Statement & Plagiarism - Writing and Reasoning
Project Description The Writing and Reasoning learning object is part of a series of self-paced digital resources...
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Hobson's Choice
By close reference to the play, Hobson's Choice, answer the following question based on the clip provided.
New Members
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Becca CarsonBig Sky High School -
Hugo LópezEducation
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Allyson KellumWenzhou Kean University
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akruti clinicakruti clinic
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Shadrack MashabaUniversity of Johannesburg
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Prince JamaUniversity of Johannesburg
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David ShawChung-Ang University
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Joan NadinBrightlights Centre
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Anna FinkelsternKibbutzim College of Education
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Bonnie RobbinsWilsonville high school
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Christy PyattMiddlesex Community-Technical College
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Rebecca HasegawaBoise Bible College
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Dorothea NelsonThe University of the West Indies
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Ann AnthonyMonroe Community/Technical College
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Amy GarnerRose State College
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Jaimie Van HamMHCBE
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Rikki MitchellMadison County High School
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Rachel SmydraOakland University
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Cynthia PortCoastal Carolina University
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Ulanda ForbessCentral Texas College
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Beth RoadarmelCoursera
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Seth JamesonMassachusetts Bay Community/Technical College
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Harold HigginbothamLawson State Community/Technical College
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Lauren Erica BirdsongAtlantic Community/Technical College
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English on the Web
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Karnataka MLA to stage silent dharna in front of Kolar DC office over delay in road widening
Sep 18, 2020 05:11 AM PDT
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Anne Stevenson obituary
Sep 18, 2020 03:41 AM PDT
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Behçet Necatigil: From conventional poetry to ultramodernism
Sep 18, 2020 03:30 AM PDT
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Bookmark This! Podcast: The Discomfort Of Literature
Sep 18, 2020 03:07 AM PDT
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CBI raids Covid-19 +ve BJD MLA in home isolation over ponzi scam
Sep 18, 2020 03:03 AM PDT
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ESL Federal Credit Union
Sep 18, 2020 02:56 AM PDT
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Two poets will share their unique words and power at Howard County events
Sep 18, 2020 02:22 AM PDT
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Punjab, Punjabiyat, every Punjabi with farmers: MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu
Sep 18, 2020 01:37 AM PDT
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COWBOY POETRY: The Dreadful Road
Sep 18, 2020 01:26 AM PDT
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Karnataka: Periyapatna MLA Mahadev tests positive for Covid-19
Sep 18, 2020 12:50 AM PDT
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Covid-19 world: Young medics take to poetry, music, cooking to de-stress
Sep 18, 2020 12:41 AM PDT
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28-year-old author gets record publishing deal
Sep 17, 2020 10:37 PM PDT
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Sep 17, 2020 10:35 PM PDT
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'Justice Rocks' Confronts Police Violence With Music, Poetry
Sep 17, 2020 08:56 PM PDT
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Legitimate Essay Writing Companies✏️ . College paper editing services
Sep 17, 2020 08:28 PM PDT
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Artist Profile: Kailyn Bondoni finds the marriage of poetry and film
Sep 17, 2020 08:11 PM PDT
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Craig Santos Perez Discusses Teaching Ecopoetry Amidst Climate Change
Sep 17, 2020 07:26 PM PDT
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Forrest Gump author Winston Groom dead at 77
Sep 17, 2020 06:52 PM PDT
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Cong MLA quits over passage of Bills in LS
Sep 17, 2020 06:52 PM PDT
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American Life in Poetry: 'And Now It's September,'
Sep 17, 2020 06:18 PM PDT
English on Twitter
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- In 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘢 series finale, the two young women protagonists begin a romantic relationship. This represen… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | NatComm
- Today’s #NCA20Fact: NCA 106th Annual Convention attendees are encouraged to create their personal schedule in NCA C… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | NatComm
- The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications, or C4DISC, is made up of scholarly societies… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | NatComm