Revising and editing your write-up, by Ruth Oji

Do the terms ‘revise’ and ‘edit’ mean the same? What do you think? Well, they are sometimes used interchangeably even though they are really two distinct activities writers engage in to improve their writing. What do the terms mean? On one hand, revising is rewriting, that is, changing words, phrases, sentences, even whole paragraphs in a rough draft. It is a process in which the writer adds, deletes, and rearranges ideas in a paragraph. On the other hand, edit