Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. However, most of us can't really see the sense of writing something more than once. Once we put the words on paper, we want to leave them. One reason may be that because reading is relatively easy, we think writing should be easy also. Consequently, many of us are chagrined when we find it difficult and even time consuming to put our ideas down on paper-and we are even more frustrated when we discover that we need to revise those words.
Revision is indeed an unhappy word.
It conjures up extra work that we don't want to do. Their understanding of the importance of the process of revision is rooted in their comprehension of what the word means. The verb 'revise' comes from a French verb meaning to look again, to see again. In other words we re-see our writing in relationship to our audience for that piece of writing. The act of revising, of re-seeing what we have written is a way of looking at the relationship of our words to our audience, to our intentions, and to other words.