This may be true, but actors and directors have been known to rewrite material before production begins, and even when they're shooting.
According to Manning Marable, "Haley was particularly worried about what he viewed as Malcolm X's anti-Semitism" and he rewrote material to eliminate it.
He therefore rewrote material to eliminate a number of negative statements about Jews in the book manuscript, with the explicit covert goal of 'getting them past Malcolm X,' without his coauthor's knowledge or consent.
Rewriting material helps memorizing it easier.
Ambrose has either added quotation marks and mentioned the source by name, or rewritten the material to make it entirely his own.
Oldenburg rewrote raw material gathered from scientific meetings and correspondences as well as the latest books and pamphlets to create a new kind of publication.
When he took the passages out of quotations, he failed to attribute Wikipedia or rewrite the material in his own words.
While generally adhering to the events of the original, the librettist wisely cut, altered and rewrote the material to produce an effective libretto.
Djalili rewrote his material to reflect the new political times, and the resulting show, Behind Enemy Lines, was a huge success, earning him adoring reviews and a nomination for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh festival.
The Dispatches team approached five similar services and recorded cases where the "client" was assured they could pass essays off as their own work or were advised to rewrite the material.
