the teaching of writing: composition, rhetoric

In the fine arts, compostion may refer to any of the following:

Composition (visual arts)
Musical composition
MIDI composition
In literature, oratory, and rhetoric, composition refers, as the etymology of the word quite literally indicates, to the "putting (words) together" to produce a work of spoken tradition or written literature. This can be in the form of drama, essay, oratory, poetry, or prose.