Many famous people use the services of ghost writers to write autobiographies or articles in magazines. Ghostwritten articles are written by someone else, who does not get the credit for writing it. Sometimes people do acknowledge the contribution of the ghost writer, but not always.

Whoever writes the ghostwritten articles does the research for the article or most of the time uses the material provided by the credited author. Ghostwritten articles are hardly prepared without using the inputs from the credited author or the idea of the credited author. For ghostwritten articles the final draft is made only after the approval of the credited author.