"edit a paper" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to the activity of providing feedback or corrections to written work. For example, "I finished editing the college essay paper just in time for the submission deadline."
I begin to edit a paper that clearly reflects that I am in the second semester of my senior year.
"Nobody wants to edit a paper that isn't read, or doesn't stir up controversy from time to time," he said.
"I was not asked to edit a paper of that sort," he wrote contemptuously in his autobiography, O Groth y Ddaear ("From the womb of the earth", 1993), "and so I resigned after six months".
"We can't edit a paper for our critics," Baquet said.
"We can't edit a paper for our critics," he told The Huffington Post earlier in June.
Burgess described Redgrave as "an old friend from Cambridge days – he once edited a paper with Anthony [Blunt] at Cambridge".
You are editing a paper in which the author explains how metaphor can make a complex subject like Einstein's theory of relativity more easily understandable.
Prominent in the discussion will be Migjen Kelmendi, who edits a paper written in Kosovo's Albanian dialect, as opposed to the standard literary form.
I can't imagine how anyone edits a paper week after week printing sensational stories without asking to see the evidence.
"It's hopped out of the Darwinian struggle for existence," said Edward Newbigin, a botanist at the University of Melbourne in Australia who was not involved in the research but edited a paper describing the clone in the online journal PLoS ONE.
Mr. Burks completed and edited a paper Mr. von Neumann had been working on, "Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata," which described how a machine might reproduce itself; it was published in 1966.
