The phrase "the rewriting of" is correct and can be used in written English.
Example: After the rewriting of the script, the movie was ready to be filmed.
Which brings us back to the rewriting of economic history.
The rewriting of real women's lives occupied two novelists.
It's the reshaping of history through the rewriting of signposts.
The program's revelations about the rewriting of E.P.A. publicity releases are particularly damning.
They told our American Special Forces soldiers the patch signifies the rewriting of Afghanistan's history...
Minor mistakes can be scraped and patched; major mistakes can require the rewriting of whole pages.
If anything, the rewriting of the artistic canon to include more women sets it back.
But does hope for a better future allow for the rewriting of a disastrous past?
But the bigger change might be behind the scenes, in the rewriting of the play book.
The rewriting of facts which characterises this government is not limited to intelligence dossiers.
And it is already manifest that these will involve the rewriting of recent history and the reopening of old wounds.
