Rhetoric and Composition/Editing  From Wikibooks, open books for
an open world Jump to: navigation, search  Editing and Revising:
One and the Same?[edit]  Samuel L Clemens, 1909. Samuel L
Clemens, 1909.  Although many writers and even some instructors
use the terms interchangeably, you may find it helpful to see
editing and revising as two different activities. For our
purposes, editing means going through a piece of writing and
making comments and suggestions about how it could be better--or
even whether it's appropriate at all. Revising, on the other
hand, occurs when a writer attempts to make the changes
suggested during the editing process.  For example, an editor
might suggest that you tweak your introduction to make it better
fit the rest of the paper. The actual process of changing the
introduction is called revising and comes with own set of
difficulties. We talk more about that process in the Revising
chapter.  You may be called upon to edit other students'
writing. This process is often called Peer