Re: plagiarism in technical communication?

["Mark L. Levinson" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>]

I was a manager of technical writers back in the cuneiform days, and the 
manuals of the particular company I worked for used to include a credit 
line naming the writer. I opposed the practice (and eventually 
terminated it) because if anybody inside the company wanted to know 
which writer was responsible for the brilliant explanation of Product A 
and the manual was written by Writer B but thoroughly revised by Writer 
C, the credit could conceivably spark an unwinnable battle. Worse yet, 
if Writer X needed a bit of help from Writer Y, Writer Y could think 
"Why expend my time and skill when somebody else is going to get the 
credit?"Â In a context like that, I can understand the notion of 
intra-company plagiarism.


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Mark L. Levinson - nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il
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