expository or compository? (writing)

[purplesky]

I always thought it was "expository writing" but I have an aquaintance who keeps referring to it as "compository writing." I've heard of composition writing, but never compository--is this a new colloquial term?

[Lodestar]

Maybe you can ask one of the Mods to move this to the "Writing" thread.

There are some sharp wordsmiths down there in the Double-Yous who would be glad to have a conversation about this.

[Lillie767]

All expository writings are compositions; however, not all compositions are expository writings.