A brief, nonfiction reader, Common Threads provides you with all the instruction, practice, and support necessary to engage with complex texts.
Ellen Kuhl Repetto (M.A., University of Massachusetts Boston) is a freelance editor and writer who has contributed to more than twenty composition readers, handbooks, and rhetorics. She is the author of
The Bedford/St. Martin's Textbook Reader (2003),
Readings for Discoveries: A Collection of Short Essays (2006), and
Hope over Hardship: A History of the Boston Home, 1881 - 2006 (2007).
Jane E. Aaron is a professional writer and editor as well as an experienced teacher. She is the author of the best selling
Little, Brown Handbook and coeditor of the best-selling
Bedford Reader, Eighth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003). She has served as consultant, editor, or writer on more than a dozen other textbooks for the first-year composition course.