Risking Contact: Readings to Challenge Our Thinking

by W. Royce Adams

For freshman composition and courses in argumentative writing, Risking Contact provides contemporary readings and questions that confront students with alternate viewpoints on social issues and challenge them to formulate critical, reasoned responses. Featuring a rich diversity of authors and thought-provoking readings, this new text focuses on such topics as censorship, lifestyles, prejudice, race, and religion.

591 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

I'm an Emeritus Professor of English, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California, where I taught for twenty-three years. Before that I taught for seven years at South High School, Torrance, California. Before that I spent three years, five months, and five days in the navy.

I earned degrees from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and California State University, Long Beach. During my thirty-year teaching career, I published twenty-two college textbooks, primarily in the areas of developmental reading, writing and study skills.

I've published several adult short stories, several of which appear in my short story collection, Teacher, Teacher, I Declare! Several of my young adult novels have won awards. See http://www.rairarubiabooks.com.

I'm a past-president of the College Reading and Learning Association, a member of the Author's Guild, the International Reading Association, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Association of Booksellers for Children, and the Rockford Writers Guild.

I live in Santa Barbara, California, with my wife, Jane Brody.