Attribution
Attribution is the ascribing of work (as literature or art) to a particular author or artist [Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.].
It is the act of attributing, especially the act of establishing a particular person as the creator of a work of art [YourDictionary].
Attribution involves identifying the author or source of written material or another work [Vocabulary.com].
Attribution is the authority or function assigned to a ruler, legislative assembly, delegate, or the like [Dictionary.com].
Attribution is the act of saying or believing that somebody is responsible for doing something, especially for saying or writing something [Oxford Learner's Dictionary].
Attribution can be attributing something to a particular cause or person, especially the act of saying something was written, said, painted by a particular person [Macmillan Online Dictionary].
Attribution gives the spirit and intent of the author’s voice and ensures the author’s input [Jabulani, p. 1].
⠀ Attribution. Dictionary.com. Retrieved from: [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/attribution].
⠀ Attribution. Oxford Learner's Dictionary. Retrieved from: [https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/attribution].
⠀ Sibanda Jabulani. (2014). An analysis of the language of attribution in university students' academic essays. South African Journal of Education. Pretoria: University of Pretoria.