This exploratory intent is usually reliant on the abstraction of a graphic language in order to reduce the amount information being processed through the act of making. Elements are reduced to basic components and evaluated according to simple ideas of relationship. this sometimes makes the information difficult to understand by those outside the process. Exploratory composition is primarily a tool for conception rather than communication, and as such it should advance the understanding of a project even if those ideas are not explicitly represented.
As opposed to the implicit information of abstraction and exploration, communicative composition relies on the explicit documentation of relationships. That documentation is meant to be clearly legible to a larger audience so that design ideas can be understood without explanation. this type of communicative composition often relies on conversations for representation ---- on a graphic language that is uniform and commonly accepted. At this stage in the process, composition becomes a tool for resolving more complex ideas. Here more responsibilities can be added to the process. Issues of proportion, organization, proximity, and hierarchy can be used to define issues of program, structure,scale, movement, and environment. Communicative composition is not necessarily relegated to documenting complete design ideas, but it can be used in bringing greater specificity to them. Whereas exploratory composition remains generic, communicative composition becomes specific through process.