The phrase "need rewriting" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used when discussing the need to revise or rework a sentence or passage for improved clarity, accuracy, or flow. Here is an example: "The first draft of my essay needs rewriting to better support my argument and address any potential counterarguments."
But some titles and lyrics really need rewriting entirely.
With 148 signatories to the Paris Declaration, it seems that obituaries to aid need rewriting.
Forty years' worth of legislation and cross-border agreements need rewriting in a more complicated, multipolar world.
Pay-TV looks a lot like retail banking: competition is weak not because the rules need rewriting but because customers are reluctant to switch suppliers.
Many apps will need rewriting to deal with the new screen, which feels as though it inflates text in apps that don't use Apple's text system.
The great grinning tradition of American satire has always been healthy because this confounding country provides an abundance of jaw-dropping moments every day, moments that don't need rewriting or amplification to reveal their comic craziness.
Certainly the second act needs rewriting where you have this happening and that happening.' We weren't at all confidant.
We all know when we haven't managed it, when something needs rewriting or tearing up altogether.
He often told me that he dIdn't think he was a good enough writer for proset and altoough he loved to write, he notoriously hated to revise.
As of two days ago, he had only just finished writing all the scenes for the play, God in Ruins, and many of those still needed rewriting.
In practice, though, it seems to be active only in cancerous cells—suggesting that the theory needs rewriting.Such rewriting is exactly the sort of task that a Human Epigenome Project could help with.
