Mak Pandit, a white paper writer, offers useful definitions of what is and is not a white paper in this YouTube video.
Since white papers have purposes that are not typical of writing you will have done, it is all the more important that you attend to what Pandit says here.
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- What is a White Paper?. Authored by: Mak Pandit. Provided by: YouTube. Located at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCNNu3nwfSw. Project: Technical Writing. License: CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike