Somehow things that occur are not enough in themselves but must be identified as a process. A little dip into the corpora show how common this has become. It is part of the writing process in which a noun is made more impressive by appending an abstract noun that adds nothing to the meaning.
Some examples:
If you are injured or ill, you go through the recovery process.
If you are building a house, there is the construction process.
If you are applying for a job, you endure the interview process. That would be a component of the hiring process.
If you are turning ore into metal, you are involved in the smelting process.
If you are making an album of your singing, you go through the recording process.
If you are proposing legislation, it will go through the review process, and perhaps the public hearing process as well.
If you are looking to add a child (or pet) to your family, you may pursue the adoption process.
If someone dear to you dies, you experience the progressive stages of the grieving process.
Should you be engaged in the editing process, let me suggest to you that words like recovery, construction, interview, smelting, recording, review, public hearing, adoption, and grieving may be perfectly adequate to indicate what is going on, and you might then profitably engage in the pruning process.
