Read Chapter 9 of Essentials of College Writing. In your initial post for this discussion:

Discuss the key differences between revising and editing.
Provide an example of what a writer does when revising, and what a writer does when editing.
Explain how much time you believe a writer should spend on each task and why.
Include a question you have about the content of the assigned reading for the week.

Your initial post must be 200 to 300 words in length and posted by Day 3. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references.

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Key differences between revising and editing

Editing may be viewed by many people as equivalent to revising a paper. However, after having a classroom session on the two, one is able to identify that the two are strikingly different. First, one is usually more keen and looks for specific details while editing, unlike in revising. In editing, one is usually after some certain aspects in the paper, such as grammar, while in revising, one usually looks at the consistency and how the paper relates to the topic in question. Further, revising can be termed as a broad picture approach while editing is more direct onto certain points in the paper …

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