revision
noun
- an altered version of a story
- stage in the writing process where the author reviews, alters, and amends their message, according to what has been written in the draft
- change, modify
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/ / [ɹɪˈvɪʒ.n̩] / /ɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French révision, from Latin revīsiō.
- The process of revising:
“Revision can turn a passable paper into an excellent one and change an excellent one into a radiant one.”
“2004, Mara Kalnins (editor), Note on the Text, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, page xxxix, The full history of its composition, revision, transmission, and publication is a complex and intricate one beyond the necessarily limited scope of this Note, […] .”
- The process of revising:
“All that last minute revision really paid off in the exam! I got top marks!”
- A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
“The first thing members need to understand about a revision is that the current bylaws are not under consideration at all. If the revision is defeated, no changes to the current bylaws take place.”
“1992, Helen Baron, Carl Baron (editors), Introduction, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H, Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, Part 1, 2002 paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, page lxxx, However, it is evident in a minority of cases that a revision by Lawrence is prompted solely by the need to remedy some local effect caused by Garnett′s deletion, and there, clearly, Lawrence′s MS text is, in principle, to be preferred.”
- A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.
“A revision story”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English vision English revision From re- + vision.
- To provide with a new vision.
“What philosophy needs is to be revisioned with a more hopeful, engaged inspirational point of view.”
“Earlier plays of the Broadway comedy genre focused on assimilation […] By re-imagining and re-visioning classic Broadway comedy as a parable of gay growth, Allen has illuminted ^([sic]) the original style and given us something new that is both fresh and funny.”