> […] **composition** as a practice of taking away.
– Kate Bowles, post 
In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, […]
> : composition as a practice of taking away. Being able to slow this process down to the point that I can see the switch from adding content to subtracting its expression has shown me a new way of **explaining paragraphing to student writers as pathmaking by adjustment to terrain**. – Kate Bowles
The only experience she has had is reproducing a document that is created in Etherpad.
In the pre-digital era, composition was never much of a problem. A scientist would take a few research articles or monographs describing the various ingredients, and then write down their composition on a fresh sheet of paper. Variations in the notations across different sources would be no more than an inconvenience. Our pre-digital scientist would translate notation into concepts when reading each source, and the concepts into his or her preferred notation when writing down the composition. As long as the concepts match, as they do in any mature field