Composition is the practical transmission of ideas and performs a reliable communication function. Composition should be practically structured. Rules and structure are required in order to be widely communicable; highly communicable composition indicates quality of thought and credibility to an audience (not that quality thoughts don’t happen outside proper composition, but they will largely die outside of it as well). From this point we can look at the recipients of particular communications and further qualify what structure and shape the communication should take. Appropriateness of form varies from text messages, to academic papers, to web based documents, to poetry, etc.
When forms of communication become less functional, changes will evolve within the structure of composition and traditional structures will be replaced by a mode of higher efficiency. Composition becomes less functional when things such as new technologies or changing social frameworks call for new or altered modes of communication. However, reformers must understand prior structures. Only from that point are credible changes brought about to meet communication needs. While in the grand scheme composition is fluid, it must be relatively fixed in order to be useful.
