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authorship

authorship

14 4.9
The fact of being the person who created a book, report or idea
  • noun
  • /ˈɔːθərˌʃɪp/
translation icon : autoría
  • The CSCC Review Series provides authorship opportunities to graduate students studying under CSCC professors.
  • authorship and/or publication
  • authorship of this article
  • collaborative authorship

And reserve authorship for people who put together the sentences.

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Examples

  • When Islam came, a new social practice based on divine authorship was introduced.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Many artists struggle with the concept of authorship and what it means to claim their creations.

  • So what can we say about the authorship of this problem?

  • And if the strange circumstances of its authorship raised a few questions, well, even better.

  • We're not sure of the authorship.

  • Scholars debate the authorship of the Gospel of John, held by some to be an eyewitness account of the life of Jesus.

  • I ask that a select committee of this house be appointed to investigate not the charges implied by these letters, but the real authorship of the letters themselves.

  • This has much to say about authorship, about the creation of fiction, and about Cervantes's own creation of the fiction of the Quixote.

  • The documentary explores the challenges of authorship in collaborative art projects.

  • The professor wrote a book discussing the implications of authorship in the digital age.

Synonyms

writing
vsauthorship
684 1.0

To create texts that express ideas, stories, or facts

is the state of having produced a work or idea rather than the activity
composition
vsauthorship
  • Literature
32 3.6

Creating written works, especially stories or essays

is the state of having produced a work, not the creative process
penning
vsauthorship
1 5.0

The act of writing books, poems, or other creative works

is the state of having produced a work, not the act of producing it
creatorship
vsauthorship
8.6

Being the person who made an idea, work, or project

is the same state but used for originating a work, idea, or theory

Antonyms

47 6.0

Copying someone else's words or ideas and pretending they are your own

How Involved

authorship
14 4.9
joint author
1 4.2
ghost
107 7.7
uncredited
3 4.6

Surface Forms

authorship singular
authorships plural

Morphology

authorship = author (transparent) = author + ship

Formed by the noun 'author' plus the productive suffix '-ship' indicating the state or condition of being an author, which is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word authorship comes from author + -ship. Author originally meant 'maker' or 'creator', and the suffix -ship means 'state' or 'condition', as in friendship or leadership. So, authorship is the 'state of being the author'.