Rapid Content Rewriting

A guide to faster and better content rewriting.

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Table of Contents
Introduction 1 - Why Rewriting? 2 - Mind Vs. Brain? 3 - Rewriting Techniques?
The Chunking Method The First Impressions Method

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4 - Rewriting Poor Quality Content

The Plug-And-Play Summarize Method Step 1: Get The Full Picture Step 2: Pick Out The Main Points Step 3: Tell Readers What Youre About To Tell Them Step 4: Expand Each Main Point Step 5: Close With a Summary

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5 - Free Tools To Check Uniqueness

Jet Checker Percent Dupe Copyscape

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Introduction

Thank you for reading this guide. It is aimed to deliver actionable information. I want you to be able to turn these words into actions that will make you more money. If youve been struggling to nd a good path, or if youre new to the Writing world, I believe this report will help you do just that! When youre done reading this guide, youll have the tools and information you need to: 1. 2. Rewrite content quickly and effectively. Use your new rewriting skills to make money selling you articles.
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One of the guiding principles I follow in my business is called speed of implementation. This means that the faster you can put something into operation that makes you money, the better. Thats my goal for you in this guide. I want you to be able to learn, practice, and implement these methods in days. Not weeks. Not months. Not years. Thats speed of implementation, and its how you go from thinking about making money online to actually making money online as fast as possible. Once you nish this guide, put in just a little bit of practice and youll be ready to dive right in and start making money. Isnt that why youre here? Lets get started.

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1 - Why Rewriting?
This is a question that inevitably comes up when discussing writing vs. rewriting, so I need to tackle it at the beginning. The fact is, rewriting offers three major advantages over writing that should not be overlooked: Writing good, original content takes a signicant amount of time and additional skills. Rewriting is much faster and does not require you to learn any other skills. Writers often burn out and suffer frequent bouts of writers block. Rewriters (once you learn to do it correctly) do not burn out and never face writers block issues. A fast rewriter will earn more per hour than a typical writer of original content.

You might be skeptical about that last claim at this point. Thats ok. I was too the rst time someone suggested the possibility to me. I think by the time you nish this guide, though, youll see that fast rewriters can easily make more money than average writers. For now, I just want you to accept at face value that rewriting does offer these three distinct advantages over choosing a career as a writer of original content. Theres no reason why you cannot become both a writer and a rewriter, by the way. Many people do just that. Having done both, I can tell you with certainty that when youre starting out - or if youre looking for a quicker and more sustainable path - rewriting is the way to go. As youll see. Lets move on and dig into the specic techniques you need to learn to become a fast, effective rewriter.
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2 - Mind Vs. Brain?

The rst thing to understand when learning to rewrite quickly and effectively is that it is not like the writing process. In fact, having lots of experience as a writer can actually make it harder to learn good rewriting techniques. Harder, but not truly difcult. You just have to unlearn some of the things going on in your head as a writer and switch to a faster, more streamlined mode of writing. Writing and rewriting are very different activities, even though the act of typing the words is obviously exactly the same. Its how you get to that nal act (typing the words) that constitutes the difference. At this point, you need to understand and embrace a core concept regarding the difference between your mind and your brain. Now, dont let your eyes glaze over. Im not going to go new age on you, I promise. Just bear with this and I think it will be clear in short order. For the purposes of grasping how writing and rewriting are fundamentally different activities, think of writing as a deeper, more elaborate process than rewriting. Which is absolutely true. Writing involves creating something completely new inside your head, and then putting it into words others can read. Contrast that with rewriting, which is shallower and less complex. As a rewriter, youre just re-telling what someone else created. Youre still putting whats in your head into words others can read, but how you get to that point is not the same as how you get there as a writer. And thats big key here.

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Writing requires the engagement of your mind. Rewriting only requires the engagement of your brain. In fact, the rewriting process is hurt by allowing your mind to become involved, as youll see shortly. For our purposes, lets dene the mind as that part of you that invokes personal memories, feelings, concepts, and evaluations as you think about words. Using the mind involves complex processes that require more time to fully complete. Again, for the purposes of this discussion, lets dene the brain as that part of you that is more machine-like, automatic, and instinctual as you think about words. Using the brain involves reexive processes that require much less time to fully complete. I think an example from everyday life will help illustrate the point Im making about the difference between the mind and the brain... When you sit in a classroom and listen to a teacher lecture about the subject at hand, your mind is engaged. Your inner wheels are turning. Youre associating the teachers words with your own experiences, memories, feelings, and concepts. Youre integrating new ideas with your old ones. Contrast that with what happens when youre driving your car through an intersection and someone runs a red light. Your brain takes control and issues commands to your hands to turn the wheel the other way and your foot to stomp on the brake pedal. Your mind is nowhere to be found in this instantaneous process, thankfully. If it did become involved, youd likely end up hurt or dead because The mind is too slow. When comparing whats going on in your head when you write vs. when you rewrite, these are handy analogies. As a writer, youre like the student in the classroom listening to the teachers lecture. Your mind is fully engaged and in control.
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As a rewriter, youre the driver reacting to the red light runner. Your brain is in charge and doing things automatically and very quickly. As a rewriter, your ultimate goal at all times is to keep your reactive brain in control and your complex mind out of the picture. OK, so how do you do that? The answer: training yourself to do rewrites by following two techniques. Each of these techniques is geared toward forcing the brain to stay engaged and the mind in the background. When you rewrite something, you want your mind laying on the beach somewhere, drinking something fruity and looking at the waves lapping the shore. All of your memories, emotions, and deep thoughts need to be taking a long vacation. Once you practice these techniques Im about to show you, theyll start to become automatic. Thats when youll become a very quick, efcient rewriter. And quick, efcient rewriters are the ones who make good money!

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3 - Rewriting Techniques?
You have three goals when rewriting: 1. 2. 3. Do it as fast as you can. End up with content that holds true to the originals meaning. Make it different enough from the original.

Speed rules. The faster you rewrite content, the more money you can make per hour. A common mistake when rewriting is accidentally changing the originals meaning. You want to avoid that in most cases. The techniques Im about to show you will make this a non-issue. You wont be changing the original authors meaning... just the words that convey that meaning. Then theres the issue of making your rewritten content different enough from the original. This is not an exact science. Some experts say just 50% difference is enough. Others recommend a higher percentage of uniqueness. I shoot for a minimum of 70%. From my experience over the past several years, Ive concluded that a minimum difference of 50% is sufcient. Such content will be treated by the search engines and most article directories as unique. You can safely put this level of unique content on the web and not worry about any negative repercussions. I want to stress that this is just my own experience. I do not have an independent and authoritative source to back this up. So use my 70% benchmark with a grain of salt, please. For now, dont be concerned with how to calculate the percentage of difference. I will give you a link a bit later to a great free tool that
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compares the original content with your rewritten content, and then shows you the % of difference instantly. Youll love it! At this point, you should be focused on the three major goals: speed maintaining the originals meaning enough difference.

There are two techniques I want to cover now that will help you to quickly learn the skills you need to be a fast and effective rewriter. With just a bit of practice, youll be able to, rewrite content and sell them for a fee.

The Chunking Method

The rst technique is called the chunking method. Simply put, youre going to break up the original content into small chunks of text. Each chunk will consist of just a few words that constitute a single thought, which youll then rewrite very quickly. Remember, you want to keep your brain in control and your mind out of the way when you rewrite. Breaking the text into small chunks is absolutely essential in order to achieve this state. Longer strings of words increase the chances that your mind will become engaged, bringing in memories, feelings, and analysis. Allowing that to happen will only slow things down. Sometimes chunking is easy. If the original content has lots of short sentences (4-10 words), then your job is that much easier. But the more common scenario is rewriting content that has longer, more complex sentences.

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When that happens, there is a simple way to determine where to stop each chunk. You want to look for specic punctuation and stop words: Comma Semi-colon Hyphen And But If Or Next Then When

Each of these represents a natural break between thoughts. These will be like road signs along the way to help you quickly pick where to end a chunk (or begin a new one). Heres a longer sentence from an article, as an example: When you shop for a new piece of home theater equipment, youll want to be sure its compatible with your existing system and all of its components. Notice that it begins with When. This is one of the stop words to watch for, and it indicates that there will be at least 2 chunks in that sentence. A comma almost always follows soon after a sentence that begins with When or Then or If. The comma is your stopping point for the rst chunk. In the example sentence above, the rst chunk to rewrite is: When you shop for a new piece of home theater equipment,

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Which I would rewrite as: When shopping for new equipment for your home theater system, You see, its much easier when you employ chunking. Youre simply rewording a short thought. It happens quickly and somewhat automatically. In other words, your brain is doing the work, not your mind. Then you simply take the next chunk in that long sentence: youll want to be sure its compatible with your existing system I stopped there because I noted the common stop word and just after the word system. Do you see how the chunk above is a separate thought on its own? Thats really what youre doing when you use chunking. Youre taking a sentence with multiple thoughts and reducing it to very short, singular thoughts. This is the key to keeping your brain in charge and your mind out of the way. So I would rewrite that chunk as: take care that the new pieces will work with your current system This leaves only one nal chunk: and all of its components. Which becomes: and each of the components you already have.

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So, here is the original sentence side-by-side with the rewritten sentence:

When you shop for a new piece of home theater equipment, youll want to be sure its compatible with your existing system and all of its components.

When shopping for new equipment for your home theater system, take care that the new pieces will work with your current system and each of the components you already have.

Chunking allowed for the rewritten content to be done quickly, while maintaining the originals meaning. In other words, I was able to do the rewrite quickly and effectively. And thats the name of the game! Had I tried to tackle that long sentence in one fell swoop, chances are Id have gotten bogged down as my mind became engaged and my brain stopped doing things automatically. A note of caution about the chunking method. Dont overdo it. If you break things down into single words or 2-word phrases, youll slow way down. More importantly, youll often end up with content that doesnt make much sense, because rewriting word-by-word often leads to garbled nonsense. Just focus on taking one thought at a time as you rewrite. Now, if you encounter a sentence in the original content that is very short, dont bother breaking it down at all. Chunking is really just for longer sentences, which youll encounter more often than short ones.

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To recap the chunking method: Break longer sentences into smaller chunks by looking for common stop punctuation and stop words. Limit each chunk to one simple thought so the rewrite comes easily and quickly. Dont overdo it by breaking things down word-by-word. Youll end up with a disjointed article that makes no sense.

I mentioned earlier that writers block and burnout were common complaints among writers. Well, a major advantage of becoming a good rewriter is that this chunking method helps you avoid both conditions. See, writers hit blocks and feel burned out primarily because their minds are engaged too long. Its like trying to run a marathon. It can be done, but its very difcult to stay with it for very long, and youre completely drained at the end. Rewriting the correct way is more like taking a short little jog around the block. Its work, but it isnt a big mental drain.

The First Impressions Method

The next method to help you become a fast, effective rewriter is one I call the rst impressions method. As the name implies, youre going with the rst thing that pops into your head as you rewrite. This means trusting your own mental thesaurus. We all have one. No matter how smart you think you are (or are not), everyone beyond the age of about 16 carries around a sizable mental thesaurus.

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The problem is, once again, the mind. See, the mind wants us to dig in and really investigate things. Sometimes, this is good. It can even save our lives! You want your mind in charge when your drunken friend says hes ne to drive you home. However, you do not want your mind in charge of the mental thesaurus when doing a rewrite. Ideally, you want your brain to have a direct line tapping straight into your mental thesaurus. If the mind gets in the way, itll try to make you consider which word to use among the several choices available in your mental thesaurus. Youll hem and haw over the choice. Bad mind! The brain will simply insert a natural choice and keep you moving along nice and fast. Good brain!

Brain > Mental Thesaurus

> Fingers = FAST!

Lets say youre about to rewrite the title of this article: Common Cat Health Issues Its already in a nice, small chunk, so the chunking method isnt necessary. So you move on to the rst impressions method. The key here is going with the very rst alternate word that pops into your head as you read the title, and skipping over the words for which a quick alternative does not occur to you. I came up with: Typical Cat Health Problems

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Notice that only 2 of the 4 words were changed. Thats 50%, and if youll recall what I wrote earlier about making your rewrites different enough, I suggested shooting for a minimum of 50%. So how did I do that rewrite quickly? I simply read the original title to myself, put my ngers on the keyboard, and typed it the way Id have said it out loud in my own words. Another way of explaining that is: I allowed my brain to access my mental thesaurus and then I typed the same thought in my own words. Thats all you want. No muss, no fuss, no deep thoughts! Youre simply taking a chunk of words that form a single thought, then youre repeating them using the language the way youd use it in normal conversation. Youre going with rst impressions. So, why didnt I change the words Cat Health from the original? The answer is simple, but it does take some practice to learn to do it on command. When no alternate word popped into my head from my mental thesaurus for either Cat or Health I simply left them alone and moved on. This is a common occurrence, so get used to it. Often, your rst impression will just happen to be identical to the word the original writer chose. The trick here is to be ok with that. Do not let it slow you down! Thats how you let the mind creep in, and then the games lost. This is an absolutely critical point, so dont gloss over it.

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Go with the rst word that pops into your head as you rewrite a chunk of text. Trust your mental thesaurus! Do not let your desire to change the words enough slow you down. That will work itself out if you follow these techniques. If a different word does not immediately pop into your head, leave it as is and move on!

To recap the rst impressions method: Use only after rst employing the chunking method on longer sentences. Read the original chunk and quickly put the thought into your own words. Go with the very rst alternate word that pops into your head. When you encounter a word in the original for which you cannot immediately think of a replacement, leave it as is and move on. Dont let it slow you down!

That really is all there is to it! Master these two techniques and you will be able to rewrite content quickly. And that content will hold true to the meaning of the original, which is precisely what you want. Finally, your rewrites will be unique enough to satisfy the search engines and article directories.

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4 - Rewriting Poor Quality Content

The two techniques I just covered work very well when rewriting original content that is of good enough quality to be understood by the reader. Unfortunately, thats not the only kind of content that youll encounter as a rewriter. Sometimes youll be presented with some really atrocious content that needs more than a straight rewrite. It happens. When confronted by this situation, there really is nothing you can do but engage the mind. You see, at this point youre not just rewriting. Youre re-creating. And thats much closer to writing than rewriting. Ive developed a plug-and-play outline you can use that will at least reduce the amount of time you might otherwise spend on this kind of rewriting job. Ill explain shortly. You have two goals when doing re-creation rewrites: 1. 2. Turn the sloppy content into good quality that makes sense. Do it as quickly as possible.

The Plug-And-Play Summarize Method

The summarize method strips a poorly written article into a few main points, and then adds an opening and closing paragraph that summarizes the ideas you just laid out. All youre really doing is picking out the good stuff, chucking out the bad, and then summarizing so the word count isnt too low.

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This method does force you to let your mind take over. Theres just no way around it when faced with this kind of rewriting job. The key here is to organize the process so that you dont have to wonder what to do next at each point along the way. Its as close to plug-and-play as youll get.

Step 1: Get The Full Picture The rst thing to do with poor content is to read through the entire article. You want to get as good a grasp as possible of what the original writer was trying to say. This may require more than one read-through, sadly. Once youve got an idea of the gist of the article, open up your favorite text editor (Notepad, Textedit, etc.). At the top, write a short phrase or sentence that encapsulates the overall message of the article. Thatll be your Title.

Step 2: Pick Out The Main Points Next, pick out the main point in each of the articles paragraphs. Dont overthink this step! Just choose the basic thought from each paragraph that supports the overall message you pulled out in Step 1. If a single paragraph has 2 or more distinct ideas, pull out each one. Then go back to your text editor and write each main point below the phrase or sentence you wrote in Step 1.

Step 3: Tell Readers What Youre About To Tell Them Now youre ready to begin re-creating the article. In the rst paragraph, youre going to tell the reader what youre about to tell them. That may sound strange, but its a classic way to open any article. More
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importantly, it does not require you to expend a lot of mental energy and it helps you clarify in your own mind what needs to be written. Simply write a 4-5 sentence paragraph that lays out what the rest of the article will go into. The rst sentence should state the overall message. Then begin the second sentence with something like, In this article, I will give you the reasons why... Then the next 2-3 sentences should introduce the main points from your list in Step 2. Dont go into details just introduce the points

Step 4: Expand Each Main Point Over the next several paragraphs, youre going to focus on each of the main points you listed in Step 2. One main point per paragraph. You do not need to go into much detail. Just give basic information. Use short sentences and common sense. Remember the original content was poor. All youre trying to do with your rewrite is clean it up, organize it, and make it useful. Youre not expected to create the highest quality from a poor original! Aim for good enough.

Step 5: Close With a Summary Just as you opened the article by telling readers what you were about to tell them, youre going to close by summarizing what you just told them. This too is a classic article writing technique. It requires very little mental energy on your part, and it gives your readers a sense of closure - which they want (whether they consciously realize it or not). Dont simply repeat word-for-word what you opened with, however. Tie in the main points with the overall message of the article. Your closing sentence should begin with something like, As you can see from the information above,... and then end with the overall message.
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What the summarize method does for you is allow you to cut out the really lousy parts of the original article. Youre just keeping the core points and writing them in your own words (using common sense). What you end up with is bound to be a lot better than the original authors! And this method is ideal for speed, which you dont want to totally abandon, of course. Because this method gives you an easy blueprint where you just plug in the various components, it greatly reduces the amount of time youd otherwise waste trying to gure out how to make sense of the mess you were handed. You do need to practice the summarize method to become procient. But, once you do get good at using it, it will help you make more money. Instead of being stumped by poor content that used to leave you feeling like you didnt even know where to start, this method puts everything into neat little steps. Just pick out what you need from the original and let the rest go. This plug-and-play technique keeps you moving along at a nice clip. And, as I hope Ive impressed upon you by now, when it comes to rewriting...

SPEED RULES!

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5 - Free Tools To Check Uniqueness

Jet Checker
I mentioned earlier that there is a free tool you can use to quickly compare an original article and your rewritten version. Its called Jet Checker, and you can access it by signing up here: http://www.jetchecker.com/signup Paste the original article on the left box where it says Original Text and the rewritten article on right box where it says Modied Text and press the big green COMPARE button. The result page should say at least: Your Article is 70% Unique. If you get results lower than 70%, the article needs further rewriting.

Percent Dupe
Now that we have checked the uniqueness of the article compared with the original, we need to check if the article is unique compared with other texts on the web. We can do this through a tool like Percent Dupe. http://www.percentdupe.com/

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This tool will check if there are similar copies of your article already published by other people on the net. Just paste the rewritten text in the bottom box and press check. There should be no copies of the rewritten article already published on the web. If the tool returns any copies, youll have to go back to the text and rewrite the non-unique sentences and repeat the check one more time. Repeat this procedure until you achieve a completely unique rewritten article on the web.

Copyscape
Copyscape is one of the top and most famous tools to check for copies of your content on the web. However theres a limited number of free checks you can perform. After that and for more advanced features it costs 5cent USD per check. This is a great tool if you can afford it.

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