overauthor

present singular third person overauthors · participle present overauthoring · participle past overauthored · past overauthored

1. To add too many names to the list of authors on a work produced by a team.

   Overauthoring and Failure to Acknowledge

   2008, RL Ballard, An ethnographic and philosophical investigation into patrol officers: Communication ethics as critical work

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   In most cases, it is better to "overauthor" in team publications than to "underauthor", to include an individual if there is...

   1982, Miscellaneous Publication - Issues 18-19, page 47

   Articles were not then overauthored or overreferenced: the mean number of authors per original article was 1-5 (range 1-4) in 1926, compared with 3-3 (range 1-12) in 1985;

   1986 October, SP Lock, “For wrapping the fish and chips”, in Archives of disease in childhood, volume 61, number 10

2. To continue revising a work past the point where the revisions improve the work.

   Caught between the plan and the non-plan the city-as-text vacillates between being overauthored and unauthored.

   2013, Jonathan Hughes, Simon Sadler, Non-Plan, →ISBN, page 137

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   In 1817, which marks the first appearance of The Ancient Mariner as a work by Coleridge, the poem is, by contrast, almost overauthored.

   1994, Jack Stillinger, Coleridge and Textual Instability, →ISBN

   The problem that Benjamin identifies with this impulse, however, is the opportunity to overauthor the world; in the same essay Benjamin castigates the practice of photography as artistic production, stating that this art form merely 'succeed[s] in transforming even abject poverty—by apprehending it in a fashionably perfected manner—into an object of enjoyment.'

   2010 Fall, Sheila Liming, “Of Anarchy and Amateurism: Zine Publication and Print Dissent”, in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, volume 43, number 2, page 137

   Whilst there are many aspects of both the interview data and their analysis that I could choose to focus on here, it may lead to a thin, possibly falsely chronological and over-simplistic/over-authored narrative.

   2010, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Penelope Harnett, Exploring Learning, Identity and Power through Life History and Narrative Research, →ISBN