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Authorship is the state of being an author of some work. In everyday usage, an author is the person who wrote or dictated work. However, in a research context an author of an academic study does not necessarily have to have been involved in the writing stage, but must have made a major contribution to the reported work. There are conventions about who is named an author of a scholarly work – and deliberate breaking of these convetions amy be seen as academic misconduct.
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