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Subject:Re: Listing publications on a CV? From:"Mike Starr" <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:38:54 -0600
I solve the problem of proving authorship by including my name in at least
one screen capture within each document I create.
Mike
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Subject: Re: Listing publications on a CV?
>> How would you handle the situation if asked to prove that you had
>> actually
>> written x number of books?
>
> Indeed. From a new hire at a job a number of years ago, upon
> seeing a certain nameplate on an abandoned cube:
> "You had HER working HERE? What books did she tell you she wrote?"
> (We named them.)
> "I wrote those! She had nothing to do with them."
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