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English subcategories

Regardless of what the umbrella category is, more serious discussions concern what categories belong in this discipline. Currently, the following sub-topics are included:
Communications (23)
Composition (69)
Criticism (10)
Drama and Theatre (15)
History (17)
Journalism (12)
Linguistics (47)
Literature (148)
Poetry (35)
Rhetoric (17)
Speech (14)

By the way, the number in parentheses indicates the number of materials in each category. Normally, when one of the sub-categories reaches 100, we need to provide further sub-categories.

Well, let's have your recommendations.

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Cathy Swift on September 23, 2008 at 5:39pm

A new question. Since our first sub-categories are Language and Literature, does it make sense to call the discipline English rather than English Language and Literature?
Thus it would be:

English
I Language
a. Communication and Speech
b. Composition and Rhetoric
c. General
d. Linguistics
II Literature
a. Drama
b. General
c. Poetry
d. Prose Fiction
e. Prose Nonfiction

And it would appear on the homepage as just “English”

Permalink Reply by Bonnie Startt on March 18, 2009 at 10:09am

Cathy, your divisions looked fair. Is there any need to futher specify the level of education, i.e. middle/high/college?

Permalink Reply by Cathy Swift on March 18, 2009 at 10:17am

Actually, Bonnie, this is an old post. Our English group is off and running. We do identify resources that are college/high school/ elementary. At the moment, MERLOT is only reviewing materials that are at the college level. BTW, if your area is English, we are always interested in people that want to help. :-)

Permalink Reply by Dr. Valiurrahaman on July 27, 2010 at 1:32am