10-second review: Surface-level revision does not affect meaning. Local-level revision does not affect the text as a whole. Global-meaning revision changes the essential meaning of the text.
Title: “Feedback and Revision in Writing Across the Curriculum Classes.” Larry Beason. Research in the Teaching of English (December 1993), 395-422.
Comment: In other words editing does not change meaning. Revision does. I think that is a half-truth. Certainly, changing the subject of a dangling modifier clearly indicates who did what. So does changing from the passive to active construction. Passive constructions hide the perpetrator behind “It has been decided….” to “Mr. Bellringer has directed that…..”
I think that the distinction that revision changes meaning is what is important. RayS.
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