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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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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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OPEN WRITING OER : Angelina Misaghi
The goals of this book are simple: To provide a low-cost, high value resource that addresses the major outcomes of...
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English, Grammar & Writing | Townsend Press
Drawing from years of teaching experience, research-based strategies, and our famously-clear pedagogy, this collection of...
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Focus on 'Henry V'
Focus on "Henry V" is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, digital Open Educational Resource co-authored and co-produced by...
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Make We Merry More and Less: An Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature
'Make We Merry More and Less' is an innovative and intriguing anthology, showing the very wide range of both knowledge...
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Essentials of Linguistics
This Open Educational Resource (OER) brings together Open Access content from around the web and enhances it with dynamic...
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M. Fernandez - ENG 105A. Accelerated Stretch Composition I Faculty e-Portfolio for California State University, San Bernardino
This open textbook is being utilized in two English Composition courses for undergraduate students by Miriam Lizette...
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O. Mango - ARAB 381: Cultures and Writings of Arab-American Women Faculty e-Portfolio for California State University, San Bernardino
Several open textbooks are being utilized in an Arabic course for undergraduate students majoring or minoring in Arabic...
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J. Perez - ENG 318: Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction Faculty e-Portfolio of CSU San Bernardino (ePortfolio)
These open educational resources are being utilized in an English course for undergraduate students by Jason Magabo...
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Desafíos De La Formación Ciudadana En La Era Digital: Estadodelarte - Open Textbook Library
This course material has been created for the course “Evaluation of comprehension and oral and written production in...
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The Unicode cookbook for linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles
This text is a practical guide for linguists, and programmers, who work with data in multilingual computational...
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BC Reads: 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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BC Reads: 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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Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom
Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and...
New Members
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Scott HigginbothamLouisiana Delta Community College -
joan hildenbrandAtlanta Metropolitan College
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Deborah MooreVolunteer State Community College
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Jaime PachecoCalifornia State University, Bakersfield
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Aniruddha MukhopadhyayTexas A and M University System - Kingsville
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Carly LeachCalifornia State University, Bakersfield
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Holly GoslinUniversity of Arkansas System - Community/Technical College at Batesville
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Sarah KnowltonButte College
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Kelli EberleMonroe Community/Technical College
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Angela HagerAlamo Community/Technical College District - Northeast Lakeview College
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William SkinnerEastern Illinois University
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Alicia HatcherEast Carolina University
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Dale DittmerChippewa Valley Technical College
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Valerie SurrettUniversity System of Georgia - University of North Georgia
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Debra ChandlerOklahoma City University
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Carol LuvertHawkeye Community/Technical College
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Amy DreesNorthwest State Community/Technical College
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Brier RougeSaint Ambrose University
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Sujata IyengarUniversity System of Georgia - University of Georgia
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Tina UlrichNorthwestern Michigan College
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Jonathan HartmannUniversity of Texas System - Dallas
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Jennifer BurgessMeredith College
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Barbara SussmanMiami Dade College
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Pei Yi YapManagement and Science University (MSU)
Materials by Discipline
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English on the Web
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This New Book Shows The Poetic Side Of Science
Aug 21, 2019 04:13 PM PDT
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An Evening Of International Poetry And Jazz
Aug 21, 2019 04:03 PM PDT
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North Delta MLA Ravi Kahlon cleared of conflict allegations
Aug 21, 2019 03:52 PM PDT
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Poetry in the air during Judge Edwin Cameron's send-off
Aug 21, 2019 03:38 PM PDT
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Poetry, music to embrace historic Mary Olson Farm on Saturday, Aug. 24
Aug 21, 2019 01:48 PM PDT
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New Book Captures the Poetry of Detroit's Musical Legacy
Aug 21, 2019 01:35 PM PDT
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5 Skokie students win Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry awards
Aug 21, 2019 01:24 PM PDT
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Apocalypse in Religion, Literature, and Film Lecturer
Aug 21, 2019 01:03 PM PDT
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Visakha South MLA sets up 'Anna Canteen' on his own
Aug 21, 2019 12:52 PM PDT
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Proposed sand policy will impact real estate sector, says BJP MLA
Aug 21, 2019 12:41 PM PDT
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Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 494
Aug 21, 2019 12:22 PM PDT
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'Friday Night Writes' offers an evening of paddling and poetry
Aug 21, 2019 12:18 PM PDT
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Further boost to Sena, sitting Congress MLA joins its fold
Aug 21, 2019 12:07 PM PDT
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Local writer publishes collection of poetry
Aug 21, 2019 11:22 AM PDT
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Ex-IPS officer seeks protection after Bihar MLA goes missing
Aug 21, 2019 10:36 AM PDT
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Tove Ditlevsen's autobiographical trilogy show the power of great literature
Aug 21, 2019 09:40 AM PDT
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New Jersey man arrested with hoard of weapons and drugs, Nazi paraphernalia and racist literature
Aug 21, 2019 08:59 AM PDT
English on Twitter
- In Rhetoric of Respect: Recognizing Change at a Community Writing Center, Tiffany Rousculp examines a community wri… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…4 hours ago | NCTE_CCCC
- Could AI algorithms help with online teaching? This @insidehighered article argues, “The ability of AI algorithms t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…6 hours ago | NatComm
- How #assistivetechnology Improves Student Experience #EdTech @CalCommColleges buff.ly/2ZhBeCe https://t.co/t6rDUqBfFZ, photo: pic.twitter.com/t6rDUqBfFZ6 hours ago | MERLOTorg
- OpenStax partner schools expected to save students $9.1M on textbooks over the upcoming year! @RiceUniversity… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8 hours ago | MERLOTorg
- In a recent op-ed, Comm Prof Richard Cherwitz proposes that “Democratic presidential candidates should meet private… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8 hours ago | NatComm
- Want to be a better online teacher? buff.ly/2KP6IGH https://t.co/4kHLi58LL5, photo: pic.twitter.com/4kHLi58LL510 hours ago | MERLOTorg
- Comm Prof Drew Cingel is researching how to use television to develop prosocial behaviors in children. Cingel's goa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…10 hours ago | NatComm
- Full-time faculty can apply for a Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year to purs… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…13 hours ago | NatComm
- "Despite the challenges in developing a classroom structure to accommodate collective action, I have resolved to ma… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…13 hours ago | NCTE_CCCC
- RT @GinaCookeLEX: @KaaarenKruse Four C's.
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