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authorship Definition

au·thor·ship (-s̸hip′)

noun

  1. the profession or occupation of a writer
  2. the origin (of a book, etc.) with reference to its author a story of unknown authorship
  3. the source (of an idea, deed, etc.) with reference to its originator

authorship Synonyms

authorship

n.

origin, origination, initiation, invention, instigation, signature, creation, making, doing, production, writing, composition; see also writing 3.

authorship Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • Pentateuch: According to the Documentary hypothesis, the Biblical claims for the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch are false.
  • book: An immense amount of research has gone into the authorship of the book to provide its rugged realism.
  • text: Week 6 Determining the authorship of a literary text.
  • letter: Hill was reprimanded by the Conference of 1825 for being involved in a legal case involving his alleged authorship of certain libelous letters.
  • article: Continue to support students to publication for example, joint authorship of articles arising from dissertation studies.

Converse of object

  • deny: The Jewish Talmud asserts that whoever denied Mosaic authorship would be excluded from Paradise.
  • acknowledge: This might explain why Disraeli never did acknowledge authorship of the book.
  • imply: Another Edinburgh novel for which James Hogg strongly implies female authorship.
  • attribute: In the second century the bias was very strongly in the direction of attributing Apostolic authorship to documents accepted into the Canon.
  • indicate: Notes: Details above replicate Corvey 2nd edn, where ' Advertisement ' indicates female authorship.
  • claim: Colman, having departed to Covent Garden, for some years claimed the sole authorship of the play.

Adjective modifier

  • Mosaic: The Jewish Talmud asserts that whoever denied Mosaic authorship would be excluded from Paradise.
  • Lucan: But it is not only on the merits of the argument that I personally accept the Lucan authorship of the Gospel and Acts.
  • apostolic: And for Matthew's Gospel the claim of apostolic authorship was made.
  • disputed: There are passages ( of disputed authorship, as we have seen ) that suggest the possibility of repentance and restoration.
  • divine: The divine authorship of the Bible does not alter our procedure at all.
  • joint: Where there is joint authorship, copyright expiry is based on the last author to die.

Modifies a noun

  • attribution: Most of the work carried out to date has focused on questions of authorship attribution.
  • analysis: Through a worked example this paper examines methodological issues which hinder the possibility of quantifying results in forensic authorship analysis work.
  • credit: Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to the article itself.