authorship
noun
au·thor·ship
ˈȯ-thər-ˌship 
1
: the profession of writing
2
: the source (such as the author) of a piece of writing, music, or art
3
: the state or act of writing, creating, or causing
Examples of authorship in a Sentence
His first attempt at authorship failed.
Recent Examples on the Web
In addition to her modeling career and raising her children, Gisele Bündchen has just branched out into cookbook authorship with her first collection of recipes, Nourish: Simple Recipes to Empower Your Body and Feed Your Soul: A Healthy Lifestyle Cookbook.
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Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2024
Inevitably, homiletics has found itself at the crossroads between a print tradition concerned with possessive authorship and an oral tradition concerned with charisma and communion.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
The firm investigated the authorship and scientific credit portions of the dispute and concluded that Sharma was likely responsible for a scientific hypothesis at the heart of the feud and should be named as a co-senior author on a key manuscript.
—Angus Chen, STAT, 26 Feb. 2024
Its success leads her to rebel, firstly through passionate love affairs with women and then by reclaiming her authorship.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
In this case, there remains no smoking gun to prove either side of the authorship question.
—Stephen Cox, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
Tech companies argue that an AI product will make knowledge more accessible, while plaintiffs argue that AI will reduce incentives for sharing that knowledge in the first place, because it’s typically stripped of authorship and presented as the creation of AI.
—Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
But in the then-emerging and exploitive Jamaican record business, Marley's authorship of o fewer than six smash hits in Jamaica netted him all of $200.
—Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
Here are some curious facts about it: Of the more than a quarter-million mathematicians who share an authorship chain with Erdős, the median number of hops required to reach him is five.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2024
Inevitably, homiletics has found itself at the crossroads between a print tradition concerned with possessive authorship and an oral tradition concerned with charisma and communion.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
The firm investigated the authorship and scientific credit portions of the dispute and concluded that Sharma was likely responsible for a scientific hypothesis at the heart of the feud and should be named as a co-senior author on a key manuscript.
—Angus Chen, STAT, 26 Feb. 2024
Its success leads her to rebel, firstly through passionate love affairs with women and then by reclaiming her authorship.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
In this case, there remains no smoking gun to prove either side of the authorship question.
—Stephen Cox, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
Tech companies argue that an AI product will make knowledge more accessible, while plaintiffs argue that AI will reduce incentives for sharing that knowledge in the first place, because it’s typically stripped of authorship and presented as the creation of AI.
—Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
But in the then-emerging and exploitive Jamaican record business, Marley's authorship of o fewer than six smash hits in Jamaica netted him all of $200.
—Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
Here are some curious facts about it: Of the more than a quarter-million mathematicians who share an authorship chain with Erdős, the median number of hops required to reach him is five.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
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“Authorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authorship. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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authorship
noun
au·thor·ship
ˈȯ-thər-ˌship
1
: writing as an occupation
2
: the origin especially of a written work
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