Goals and Outcomes for English 1105, 1106, & H1204

The Virginia Tech Composition Program uses the Council of Writing Program Administrators’ Statement of Outcomes for First-Year Composition to frame its first-year courses.

The WPA Outcomes

  1. Bullet Rhetorical Knowledge

  2. BulletCritical Reading, Writing, and Thinking Skills

  3. BulletAn Awareness that Learning to Write is an Ongoing Process

  4. BulletA Knowledge of Conventions

Additional Goals

  1. BulletVisual Literacy

  2. BulletSkill in Oral Presentation

  3. BulletWriting from Research


For more on the WPA Outcomes, check out their website at http://www.wpacouncil.org/positions/outcomes.html

Each year the Composition faculty produce Composition at Virginia Tech: Written, Spoken, and Visual Composition, a book which then becomes one of the primary texts for English 1105, 1106 and H1204.


The book features essays and projects by Virginia Tech students as well as writing, speaking, and visual exercises keyed to the program outcomes.


This year’s text includes work by fifteen different Virginia Tech students.

Composition at Virginia Tech is written by English Department faculty and graduate teaching assistants. It is produced and published by Pearson Education which also furnishes prizes to student authors included in each edition.

Composition at Virginia Tech—Written, Spoken, and Visual Composition