Editing vs. Revising

I was required to write a research paper the last semester of my senior year in high school.  I choose to write about the problems with No Child Left Behind.  I had to research all my information before I could do anything.  I printed off tons of info and highlighted what I thought was important or I could use later.  We had class time to do this but I ended up doing a lot of it at home, especially typing.  While I was at school, we had to sit in the computer lab and work.  I found this distracting because I felt like I couldn't focus with all the other people in there.  When I was at home, I would have music playing quietly in the background.  Once I finished researching, I had to write the paper.  While I was writing the paper, I found I couldn't have any background noise at all.  I would find myself off track or distracted if I tried to listen to music or watch television while writing my paper.  For this reason, I did most of my typing at home where it was quiet.

I think the difference between editing and revising papers is the amount of errors you are looking for.  I think of editing as thoroughly reading the paper and making specific corrections or suggestions like "move this sentence up and talk more about how this happened".  Revising would be more of skimming or quickly reading the paper and making more vague correction suggestions such as "add more information".