12th December 2007, 01:18 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by ecmgardner
Just a quick grumble... you know illustrators are archaeologists too. ..... The report may have been synthesised and the text written by the lead writer but it's a team effort - isn't it?
Sure, as are others of differing flavours - enviro bods, surveyors, finds specialists etc. Credit should be given in the acknowledgements to all involved. For grey lit site reports I usually start my acknowledgements with 'The report was compiled from information recorded on site by ...'. I then name check others who may have provided help but not actually written a report section. Specialists who provide written sections have their name against their own written section.
As a principal author and sometimes finds specialist I see both sides. For publications I tend to favour crediting all where they have provided written sections. However, there is increasing pressure to provide synthetic pieces and specialists can lose accreditation. It can be a bit galling to see your specialist section (or chunks of it) under the name of a principal author, even if you are mentioned as a contributor e.g. Joe Bloggs with contributions by ....