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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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The History of Scholarship Project
Objectives: Students will apply research skills from the Online Course and develop a presentation that demonstrates their...
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The Scholarly Conversation Project
Objectives: Students will understand how serial publications are presented in databases and how to read them...
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Reported speech statments
This learning object is made to help students understand reported speech statements where the reporting verb is in...
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Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden
This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told...
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The Living Stream: Yeats Annual No. 18
Memories of the man are shared by Seamus Heaney, Christopher Rush and Colin Smythe, who compiles a bibliography of...
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Yeats's Mask: Yeats Annual No. 19
eats’s Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this renowned research-level series. Fashionable in the age of...
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Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell: Yeats Annual No. 20
This number of Yeats Annual collects the essays resulting from the University College Cork/ESB International Annual W. B....
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Bourdieu and Literature
Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre...
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The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts
This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship....
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Exploring Public Speaking: 2nd Revision
This Open Textbook for Public Speaking was created under a Round Three ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. The revisions...
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Contribute a Verse: An Introduction to First-Year Composition
NOTE: This textbook is not an open textbook. Affordable Learning Georgia has a special agreement with the University of...
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Compact Anthology of World Literature
The introductions in this anthology are meant to be just that: a basic overview of what students need to know before they...
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Dictionary of the British English Spelling System
This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It’s a reference work intended for anyone...
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Yeats's Legacies: Yeats Annual No. 21
The two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family’s 80-year tradition of generosity to...
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Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays
This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of...
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An Anglo-Norman Reader
This book is an anthology with a difference. It presents a distinctive variety of Anglo-Norman works, beginning in the...
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Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 3
This systematic approach to interpreting the poem provides a wholly new way not just to read the poem but to teach it...
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Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English
Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative...
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Dickens's Working Notes for Dombey and Son
This critical edition of the working notes for Dombey and Son (1848) is ideal for readers who wish to know more about...
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Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication
In the age of Buzzfeeds, hashtags, and Tweets, students are increasingly favoring conversational writing and regarding...
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Contribute a Verse: An Introduction to First Year Composition
In response to the Affordable Learning Georgia initiative, Dr. Tanya Bennett and ten colleagues from the University of...
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Open Science Children's Stories: "Fly-in-Space"
Fly in Space is excellent example of an Open Science Children's Story about two fruit flys born on earth and raised in...
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A Guide to Technical Communications: Strategies & Applications
Welcome to the textbook for Engineering Technical Communications courses at The Ohio State University. Our aim in...
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Yoga Minds, Writing Bodies: Contemplative Writing Pedagogy
In Yoga Minds, Writing Bodies, Christy Wenger argues for the inclusion of Eastern-influenced contemplative education...
New Members
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JENNIFER AVILAUniversity of the West -
Jon BeadleCalifornia State University, Northridge
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Wes SpratlinMotlow State Community/Technical College
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Angela EcklundModern Language Association
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Kathleen Reillyprivate person.
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Matthew KammerzeltNone
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Joyce BrownPiedmont Technical College
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Kristen TowellColumbia Gorge Community/Technical College
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Ruth WilliamsCabool R-IV Schools
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Isabell CamilloBrock University
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Jan BoulwareBethune-Cookman University
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Adam Van De Kraatssfsu
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Amita GargInfotech Career College
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Wanda WallerSouthern University - Shreveport Bossier City
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Sonya HesterSouthern University - Shreveport Bossier City
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Angela CoatesDowningtown Area School District
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Cheryl ReedSan Diego Miramar College
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Alberto Araya GuerreroINACAP Universidad Tecnológica de Chile
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Stephanie DashielPrince George`s Community/Technical College
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Marian RussellCollege of Marin
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Kathryn CrowtherGeorgia Perimeter College
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Wendy HolmesSanta Monica City College
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Leopoldo GeroimoHunan, Changsha Tongshenghu Experimental School
Materials by Discipline
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English on the Web
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Livingston Parish schools expanding ESL program
May 21, 2018 04:48 PM PDT
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Poetry and audience
May 21, 2018 03:52 PM PDT
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Mobile Shooter Guns of Boom Partners with ESL for $200K Esports Season
May 21, 2018 03:30 PM PDT
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Poetry Spotlight: Graessley and Lac
May 21, 2018 03:18 PM PDT
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ESL valedictorian also graduating with associate's degree thanks to School District 189 partnership ...
May 21, 2018 02:45 PM PDT
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ESL Announces Three New Deals: Tinderbox, Proximus, Nova Entertainment
May 21, 2018 02:11 PM PDT
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Terrance Hayes Speaks To American Racism In Latest Collection Of Poetry
May 21, 2018 01:15 PM PDT
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Poetry at the public library
May 21, 2018 01:03 PM PDT
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Australia's taste for translated literature is getting broader, and that's a good thing
May 21, 2018 12:41 PM PDT
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Book of poetry emerges as One Book, One Oak Park selection
May 21, 2018 12:30 PM PDT
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MB Patil whisks away MLA Bayyapur from Kushtagi
May 21, 2018 10:37 AM PDT
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MLA calls for improved mental health treatment
May 21, 2018 10:03 AM PDT
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Poetry's advantage
May 21, 2018 09:18 AM PDT
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Professional CS:GO Players Tested for Performance-Enhancing Drugs at the ESL Pro League ...
May 21, 2018 08:56 AM PDT
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Answers To the Bulgarian Language and Literature Exams
May 21, 2018 08:11 AM PDT
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A tradition: Dakota Cowboy Poetry Gathering
May 21, 2018 08:00 AM PDT
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Team Spirit Replace Natus Vincere at ESL One Birmingham
May 21, 2018 07:37 AM PDT
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