CompPile This link opens in a new windowThe Comp is short for composition, and this database allows the user to search among approximately 105,000 publications whose focus is writing studies, including post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse analysis. CompPile goes back as far as 1939, and is updated monthly. Many of the publications indexed in CompPile are available in full-text. In addition, CompPile offers links to resources and organizations concerning writing pedagogy.