Both Uses
revise
in
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
(Edited)
- Angela Carter does that in The Bloody Chamber (1979), a collection of stories that tear the roof off old, sexist fairy tales to create subversive, feminist revisions.
Chpt 8revisions = changed versions
- Jack Kerouac presents himself as a free spirit performing automatic writing, but there's a lot of evidence that this Ivy Leaguer (Columbia) did a lot of revising and polishing—and reading of quest tales—before his manuscript of On the Road (1957) got typed on one long roll of paper.
Chpt 20b *revising = editing
Definitions:
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(revise) to change (and hopefully improve) -- most frequently to improve a written document, but it can be any intentional change such as a change in an estimated amount, a plan, or a series of procedures
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In the UK, revise can also mean to review material previously studied to prepare for a test.