Students of building construction courses are not only excellent in theoretical and practical construction subjects. One concrete evidence of this is that two building construction students are authors of two of twelve selected essays which will be published in the annual book “Composition at the Virginia Tech: Written, Spoken and Visual Composition.” The event and book are featured at http://www.bc.vt.edu/news/
The book is used as one of the principal texts in the school's incoming first year English classes. These classes are Virginia Tech's English 1105, 1006 and H1204 which have an annual average of 6,000 students. This means that being included in the book is indeed a mark of prestige. Aside from this, this is an indication that construction students can be very good in writing essays and they can really write excellent construction essays in their major subjects.
Virginia Tech's English Department produces the annual event and book. Entries to the book are chosen from essays and projects submitted by students in their freshman English subjects. The construction students are Rivers Kelly who submitted the popular culture fieldwork essay “Pepsi vs. Coca-Cola” for English 1006 and Danny Sutherland who submitted “The Use of Make-up and Costume in Creating Dracula” as assignment on the analysis of make-up and costuming in film in English 1105. The students will be writing more construction essays in their higher years and this is a good foundation for them. Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies and Virginia Tech itself is keen on developing strong communication skills in their students and future graduates.
Virginia Tech is the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University which is a public land-grant university serving the Commonwealth of Virginia, the United States of America and the world.
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