revising
- noun
- /rɪˈvaɪzɪŋ/
- Hill, Matthew B. Revising (the) Resistance: American Guerillas in Popular Film and Television. 1289.
Some people are great at revising, at addressing notes, right?
- Some people are great at revising, at addressing notes, right?
- And then of course, tons of revising, going back and rewriting and revising, you know, compressing, you know, cutting, editing the dialogue over time.
Examples
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And that allowed us to do our job as a revising chamber better.
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Reflecting and Revising
Academic text (1999) -
Most teachers divide the process of writing an essay into three stages: Prewriting, Writing, and Revising.
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The revising of the manuscript took several weeks to ensure clarity and coherence.
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After revising her paper, she felt more confident about her arguments and analysis.
Synonyms
Changing something to make it better or more suitable
The act of preparing writing, videos, or recordings for sharing by correcting and arranging them
A change made to improve or correct something
Making something more current by adding new information
Changing a text to make it clearer or better
A different way of saying the same idea to make it clearer
A new version of a book or film with changes
A process of checking and correcting written text to make it clear and accurate before publication
Changing something so it becomes better or works differently
Putting something into different words to make it clearer
Changing the words of a sentence to say it more clearly
Saying or writing the same idea using different words to make it clearer
An act of changing something written to make it clearer or more correct
A new version of a written text that replaces the first
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Revising comes from the parts re- 'again' and vis- 'see', the same root as vision. So to be revising is to 'see again', to look at your writing once more and make it better.