Edit document in workflow

I am new to SharePoint, so please bear with me if this is a dumb question. I am running a standard workflow (Collect Feedback) on a doucment library, and starting it manually. When the recipient receives the automated e-mail notifying them of the task, the hyperlink to the document opens it as 'read only'. I want the reviewer to be able to edit the document and save it back into the document library as a new version. Is this possible, as I haven't seen anything obvious in the workflow set-up dialogue?

Bump, You would think that SharePoint at MS would have done this by now.

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