Revising and Editing

Revise vs Edit Revise vs Edit

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 You don’t necessarily have to read the passage to edit  You are not reading for comprehension so it doesn’t matter what the passage is about.

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 Remember, you don’t necessarily have to read the passage to revise  Understand that you are not reading for comprehension. “I don’t care what the passage is about.”  When revising you might need to read the sentence before and the sentence after to understand the context