All 14 Uses of

composition
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

This, he said, explains why a classful of freshman composition students arrives at similar ratings of Quality in the compositions.†
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compositions = things created -- typically works of music or writing; or acts of creating such work; or the structures of such work

He was an ancient Greek — a rhetorician — a 'composition major' of his time.†
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He used the demonstrator to avoid talking in terms of principles of composition, all of which he had deep doubts about.†
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Outlines and footnotes are standard things taught in all freshman composition classes, but now as devices for improving Quality they had a purpose.†
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He wrote: "(1) Every instructor of English composition knows what quality is.†
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It was way too tedious and difficult for a course in freshman composition.†
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Classroom popularity contests could determine whether a composition had immediate appeal, all right, but was this Quality?†
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This, he said, explains why a classful of freshman composition students arrives at similar ratings of Quality in the compositions.†
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And he knew from his experience with philosophy that further study there was unlikely to uncover anything concerning an apparently mystic term in English composition.†
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In technical composition a similar distinction exists between physical description and functional description.†
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But to apply these classifications to a whole field of knowledge such as English composition seemed arbitrary and impractical.†
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Phaedrus' provocation informed the Chairman that his substantive field was now philosophy, not English composition.†
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Definitions:

(1) (composition as in: the composition of the audience)
the parts that make up something, something made up of parts, or the way it is put together
(2) (composition as in: an original composition)
a creative work, the way the creative work is put together, or the act of creating it

Context will sometimes make clear that the creative work is the writing of music or an essay, but it can anything -- such as the way the components of a picture are arranged.