The word 'rewriting' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to the process of writing something again or differently, for example "The publisher asked me to do some rewriting before submitting the article for publication".
Many African presidents have tried to stay in power by rewriting their countries' constitutions to lose the limits on presidential terms.
Thursday night's Banished and Sunday night's Poldark are actively rewriting the visual grammar of the costume drama as we know it.
Week 16: Redrafting - Monday 18 January Writing is rewriting and every writer must find their own way to revise their work.
"But then he doesn't go back to obsessively checking the computer or rewriting the speech, or worrying about what [rightwing journalist Matthew d'Ancona] really means.
By making long-term pledges for government spending on infrastructure, rewriting institutional shareholders' responsibilities to prevent them chasing short-term profits and shaking up the banking sector to promote competition, Labour hopes to boost investment, lift productivity and ultimately nurture a more successful economy.
Judith Soal, who edits the Guardian foreign networks, said: "We did anticipate that this would be sensitive and had the conversation about the difficulties of including the Baltics, but not to do so would have been retrospectively rewriting history.
Many of the sites marking colonialism still stand in India today, representing an impressive ability to accept one's history by absorbing it, rather than defacing and rewriting it.
Related: Turkey election 2015: speculation begins over which parties will form majority government – live The election result appears to have wrecked Erdogan's ambition of rewriting the constitution to establish himself as an all-powerful executive president, while the country's large Kurdish minority has been granted its biggest voice ever in national politics.
Joanna Trollope began a project to update Jane Austen, rewriting Sense and Sensibility (Harper Collins) for the internet generation (Marianne strumming Taylor Swift songs on her guitar).
The election result on Sunday, with almost all votes counted, appeared to wreck Erdoğan's ambition of rewriting the constitution to establish himself as an all-powerful executive president.
Yet Fidesz's nationalism – and its support for rewriting Hungarian history to whitewash its role in the Holocaust in particular – always ends up legitimising Jobbik's extremist rhetoric.
