authorship

1. The act of creating written works (synset 100931533)
   "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
   associated with:

   • compose, indite, pen, write - produce a literary work
   • write about, write of, write on - write about a particular topic
   • profile - write about
   • paragraph - write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher
   • dash off, fling off, knock off, scratch off, toss off - write quickly
   • rewrite - rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose
   • write copy - write for commercial publications
   • adopt, dramatise, dramatize - put into dramatic form
   • draft, outline - draw up an outline or sketch for something
   • author - be the author of
   • co-author - be a co-author on (a book, a paper)
   • ghost, ghostwrite - write for someone else
   • annotate, footnote - add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
   • cite, reference - refer to
   • write out, write up - put into writing; write in complete form
   • script - write a script for
   is a type of: verbal creation - creating something by the use of speech and language
   subtypes:

   • adoxography - fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects
   • drafting - writing a first version to be filled out and polished later
   • dramatisation, dramatization - conversion into dramatic form
   • fabrication, fictionalisation, fictionalization - writing in a fictional form
   • historiography - the writing of history
   • metrification - writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition)
   • novelisation, novelization - converting something into the form of a novel
   • redaction - the act of putting something in writing
   • lexicography - the act of writing dictionaries
   • versification - the art or practice of writing verse
   same as: composition, penning, writing
2. The act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing (synset 100241621)
   "the authorship of the theory is disputed"
   is a type of: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination - the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
   same as: paternity

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