Technical Books Stir-up Legal Battles



The huge rush of new technical books written by freelance writers has stirred up many legal battles over plagiarism and other unethical practices.

Technical Writing Ethics

The terms ethics in technical writing is about displaying accurate and useful information for the audience. This includes having to tell the audience about all aspects of a subject manner regardless of the influence that information may have including the negative influences. Many businesses fail at this intentionally to try to make the brand image more appealing to the audience.

This lack of use of ethics in technical writing has lead to otherwise unmanageable information. That is making it hard for others to make a proper decision about the subject manner in general. Technical writing is involved in every industry and should not be considered a useful form of writing when companies want to promote brand awareness. 

This leads us to plagiarism. Many companies are using content that they do not own as though they do own it. They copy website content from blogs and social media and paste it to there own personal accounts without any credential given to the original creator. 

What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is a form of stealing other people’s ideas and information and using it as your own original thoughts or creations. It often comes in the form of taking exact words written and copying them for the personal use of an author. Paraphrasing others works without proper citations is also a form of plagiarism that many over look when constructing technical writing.

Many people’s ideas often come together to make an original works in technical writing, which often leads to hundreds of references to properly give credit to others.

A properly developed piece of technical writing forms a good piece of ethical technical writing that has no plagiarism and leaves out no detail.  







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