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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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C. de Los Reyes - ENG 105B/106B: Accelerated Stretch Composition I/II for Multilingual Students
These open educational resources are being utilized in an English course for undergraduate students by Chloe de Los...
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Reported speech questions
This learning object helps to learn and practice forming reported speech questions where the reporting verb is in the...
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Reported speech imperatives
This learning object helps to learn and practice forming reported speech imperatives where the reporting verb is in the...
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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...
New Members
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Benhtri ThaihaBenhtrithaiha -
Nancy GONZALEZInstituto Balseiro
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Mary CopelandSan Bernardino Valley College
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KERRY SpoonerSuffolk County Community/Technical College
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Julie RothOdessa College
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Sarah PetersonOlivet College
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David CalladineInternational School of Gdansk
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Yusuf Şamil AdıgüzelYusuf Şamil Adıgüzel
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Miroku NemethWest Hills College Lemoore
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Kaycie WellsEmerald High School
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Wanda M WallerSouthern University - Shreveport Bossier City
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Elena NeunaberCommunity College of Baltimore County
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Kim WozencraftUlster County Community/Technical College
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Donya SamaraTallahassee Community/Technical College
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Karen JobeOklahoma State University - Oklahoma City
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Robert BrantleyCobb Middle School
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AmberNicole PfannenstielMillersville University of Pennsylvania
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Kira Josende CamachoKIRA
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Wallace GoodRichland College
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Vanessa CarlisleCalifornia State University, Northridge
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Vanessa CarlisleCalifornia State University, Northridge
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Shirley SousaMaria Ines e Adalberto
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Kim MurphyMontgomery College
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Corri DitchCalifornia State University, Northridge
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English on the Web
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Indigenous voices have never been more important to Australian literature
Jun 22, 2018 05:00 PM PDT
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HMH Into Literature
Jun 22, 2018 01:59 PM PDT
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RFID Machines in British Libraries Are Producing Charming Found Poetry
Jun 22, 2018 01:41 PM PDT
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Attack on MLA: AAP activists burn Capt's effigy
Jun 22, 2018 01:38 PM PDT
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Mining Dept gives clean chit to Ropar MLA assault accused
Jun 22, 2018 01:26 PM PDT
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MLA opposes heritage status for Palwal rly station
Jun 22, 2018 11:33 AM PDT
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Beloved Green mixes dance, poetry in new collection
Jun 22, 2018 11:11 AM PDT
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The Summer Finals of the ESL India Premiership Comes to Mumbai
Jun 22, 2018 10:15 AM PDT
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Dr. Leslie Petty Named Director of 2018 American Literature Association Conference
Jun 22, 2018 09:25 AM PDT
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Eighty Projects Worth Over Rs 29 Approved To Promote Literature, National Heritage
Jun 22, 2018 09:15 AM PDT
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Nova's debut collection scoops the CLiPPA award
Jun 22, 2018 08:00 AM PDT
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Councillors question delay in payment to contractors
Jun 22, 2018 07:49 AM PDT
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Can Diet Help in Psoriasis?
Jun 22, 2018 07:26 AM PDT
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Houston comedian Mo Amer has poetry in his blood, and a Netflix special coming up
Jun 22, 2018 07:15 AM PDT
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Reading the Landscape: UQP, David Malouf, an igloo and me
Jun 22, 2018 07:03 AM PDT
English on Twitter
- #Throwback to this time last year when our #4C18 Stage 2 reviewers were at the NCTE office in Urbana, IL. We're exc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…4 hours ago | NCTE_CCCC
- NCA seeks members to serve on a variety of governance and award selection committees. Nominate yourself or a fellow… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8 hours ago | NatComm
- Facebook released new tools this week to help combat the spread of misinformation and #fakenews on its platform. Co… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…9 hours ago | NatComm
- RT @DoctaMuhlhauser: .@NCTE_CCCC Looking for 4C CFPs for a research project. Need 2000, 2004, 2005, and any before 1997. Reply to me if you…11 hours ago | NCTE_CCCC
- RT @proftpowell: #WritingStudies world! Does anyone have specific music videos they like to use to teach narrative and analysis? Want to…11 hours ago | NCTE_CCCC
- Comm Prof William Donohue weighs in on dehumanizing language and rhetoric that political regimes use to justify gen… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…12 hours ago | NatComm
- .@JeffreyKlausman 's article from the most recent TETYC looks at faculty views of academic freedom and finds that t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…13 hours ago | NCTE_CCCC
- New NCA Current Commentary: Comm Prof Bradford Vivian argues that 160 years later, Lincoln’s “House Divided” speec… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…14 hours ago | NatComm
- RT @Routledge_MandC: The Communication, Media, and Governance in the Age of #Globalization conference starts today in Beijing! Supplement t…16 hours ago | NatComm
- RT @MKraidy: @PhaedraPezzullo on environmental communication & the public sphere in China & the US @NatComm - CUC conference in #Beijin…16 hours ago | NatComm