ghost writing
Uncredited prose work
Ghost writing is producing written work that will be credited to someone else.
A ghost writer might pen a celebrity's memoir, a politician's speeches, or a student's essays.
The practice is standard in publishing and politics but considered cheating in academic contexts.
The autobiography was ghost written by a journalist.
- creditingAssigning recognition to someone
- pseudonymFictitious professional name
- unnamed sourceConfidential tipster in journalism
- authorshipOrigin of written work
- speechwriterComposes others' addresses
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- PR tacticspress release, press conference, media kit, spokesperson, talking points
- Drug Scandalsthalidomide, fen-phen, OxyContin, opioid epidemic, opioid crisis
- pseudonymspen name, pen names, pseudonym, pseudonyms, nom de plume
- Plagiarism Typesself-plagiarism, patchwork, word-for-word, copy-paste, spinning
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