emendation
noun
different editors applied rival principles of textual emendation:
correction, rectification;
improvement, improving, enhancement, enhancing, polishing, refinement, refining, clarification;
editing, alteration, rewriting, revision, copyediting, subediting, amendment, modification;
redrafting, recasting, rephrasing, rewording, reworking;
expurgation, redaction, censorship, censoring, bowdlerization.