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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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Naming the Unnamable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations
Informed by a writing philosophy that values both spontaneity and discipline, Michelle Bonczek Evory’s Naming the...
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Greek and Latin Roots: Part II - Greek
Greek and Latin Roots: Part II - Greek is part two of a two part series. This series examines the systematic principles...
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Greek and Latin Roots: Part I - Latin
Greek and Latin Roots: Part I - Latin is part one of a two part series. This series examines the systematic principles by...
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Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence
Writing in College is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic...
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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...
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Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations
Informed by a writing philosophy that values both spontaneity and discipline, Michelle Bonczek Evory’s Naming the...
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Analyzing meaning: An introduction to semantics and pragmatics
This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a linguistic perspective. It covers a...
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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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Linguistics
This online textbook serves to provide an introduction to the science of linguistics, its major subfields, and its...
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Writing Exercise: Planning Instructions
This is an exercise I created for a Technical Writing class that I teach online. It is an easy knowledge check that...
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Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication
Authors' Description: "In the age of Buzzfeeds, hashtags, and Tweets, students are increasingly favoring conversational...
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British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond
The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you British Literature II: Romantic Era to...
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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present
Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Late Romanticism (1855-1870) Chapter 2: Realism (1865-1890) Chapter 3: Naturalism...
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World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650
Reading about any culture foreign to one’s own tends to create a form of culture shock in the reader. In a...
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Compact Anthology of World Literature
A world literature class may be the first place that some students have encountered European works, let alone non-Western...
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Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication
Authors' Description: "In the age of Buzzfeeds, hashtags, and Tweets, students are increasingly favoring conversational...
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Professional and Technical Writing
This guide to technical writing was created by and for students enrolled in Technical and Professional Writing courses....
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Technical Writing |
You're probably wondering what this "technical writing thing" is. Someone may even have told you, "it's this course where...
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Three Modules on Clear Writing Style: An Introduction to The Craft of Argument, by Joseph M. Williams and Gregory Colomb
Each of the three modules in this series introducing the Little Red Schoolhouse principles aims to do several things:...
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Technical Writing
A textbook focusing on writing in the workplace, with an emphasis on audience analysis, writing for specific situations,...
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Exploring structural element of a short story using semantic web
“Exploring Structural Element Of A Short Story Using Semantic Web” By: Ma. Teresa A. Lopez
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Rhizcomics
Rhizcomics is a digital monograph that composes multimodal arguments about rhetoric and comics. The book presents comics...
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MAKING SPACE
This collection situates space design and digital technologies as deliberate, infrastructural practice. The chapters call...
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Digital Samaritans: Rhetorical Delivery and Engagement in the Digital Humanities
Digital Samaritans explores rhetorical delivery and cultural sovereignty in the digital humanities. The exigence for the...
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Diana Young-BlanchardSkagit Valley College
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Christy DavisSan Jacinto College District
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Grant SpathisNEIU
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Dylan HusseyLIBSTAT
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Dylan MartinLincoln University of Missouri
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Melissa KingCommunity/Technical College of Vermont
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ANIL AKYOLUlalar 75. Yil Bayrak Ilkokulu
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Yvonne AdamsPataula Charter Academy
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Melissa TombroState University of New York System - Fashion Institute of Technology
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Jillian LinsterThe University of South Dakota
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Jacqueline TidwellUniversity System of Georgia - University of Georgia
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Kathy KysarUniversity of Alaska
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Vaitiare HuertaINACAP
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Loretta ManillLos Angeles City College
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Kim AmigableSripatum University
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Doreen Kiefer-KopeckyChase Collegiate School
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Donna BrewerMotlow State Community/Technical College
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LouAnn GottschalkFort Hays State University
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Jason ShrontzGogebic Community/Technical College
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Ajith ThangapazhamVelammal Institute of Technology
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- #NCA18 will feature a special series entitled "Collaboratories." These unique panels are designed to spur collabora… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…18 hours ago | NatComm
- Short courses at #NCA18 are filling up quickly! The following courses are now full: SC05, SC07, SC13, SC17. SC11 an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…21 hours ago | NatComm
- "Food is the essence of social class -- the way we talk about it, the way we think about it," says Comm Prof Debbie… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…23 hours ago | NatComm
- In the SWR book Toward a New Rhetoric of Difference, Stephanie Kerschbaum provides a detailed analysis of diversity… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | NCTE_CCCC
- RT @wisebeck: Anyone able to share a sample teaching letter with me? One of my local colleagues is writing me one for my teaching portfolio…1 day ago | NCTE_CCCC
- The Call for Proposals for the first national Two-Year College English Association (TYCA) conference is now open. P… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | NCTE_CCCC
- RT @DrCCedillo: Headed to Pittsburgh in March? Here's the #4C19 Access Guide which will soon be posted to the conference website. Many than…1 day ago | NCTE_CCCC
- Join us in Houston, Texas, for the @NCTE Annual Convention. Register today: convention.ncte.org #NCTE18 https://t.co/Uas1mn1fwo, photo: pic.twitter.com/Uas1mn1fwo2 days ago | NCTE_CCCC