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The
Art Of Rewriting
Rewriting Guide
Ten Steps To A Better Rewritten Article
►Read
through the whole article in front of you. If necessary, think of
putting two articles that talk about the same subject together. That
way, you have a bit more content to play around
with.
►Think
of a headline for your new article. Now remember, this has got to have
the main keywords in it. But it also has to go beyond it. For example,
if your article is about Weight Loss, don't just put 'Weight Loss' in
your headline. How about '5 Easy Steps To Weight Loss'? Now look at the
way the new headline has been written. Every first letter of each word
is a capital letter. (A tip: if you’re working on Word, go to
Format>Change Case>Title Case)
►Now
comes the biggest challenge. The introductory paragraph. Make it catchy,
make it inviting so the reader will want to read on. All you need are
two or three sentences that catch the attention. This is what sets the
tone of your article. What you say can be taken from the original
content. How you say it should be yours and yours alone.
►Before
you go into rewriting the rest of the article, here are a few things you
could keep in mind. If you want to play it safe, stick with the classic
'essay' way of writing. This means you have a beginning, which is the
Introduction, a Middle - which could be one paragraph or a few
paragraphs and the Conclusion or the wrapping-up paragraph which makes
the article complete.
►The
beginning or the Introduction is what you need to spend a few minutes
thinking about. This is what will draw the reader in or turn him away.
Try and find what it is about the matter that will be most arresting and
put that into the first few sentences to attract. The Middle or the Body
will be the meat of the article - all the facts, in fact, the content
you have before you, rewritten. Then comes the end or the Conclusion.
Let your last sentence or two wrap it all up so the whole article seems
complete.
►OK
- now you've written your Introduction, it's time to do some rewriting.
Remember that your article needs to be around 500 words. If you have
just one article that you are rewriting from, you can start straight
away. If it's two or more articles you are going to draw content from,
here's what you do. Cut and paste the relevant portions in the order you
want. Now this comes after the Introduction. Then you rewrite what you
have in the order you have it in.
►Write
on top of each paragraph or couple of sentences (samples). As soon as
you are done, delete the original. Keep going till there is no original
text left. Then, do one or two wrap-up lines of your own and there is
your Conclusion. Hey Presto! Your article is done!
►Now
you might ask, how do you rewrite? Well, here are a few tips to get you
started:
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change the Active Voice into the Passive
Voice and vice versa.
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any time you find it difficult to find
different words that mean the same thing, look up the synonyms in Word.
This is just to throw up alternative words and expressions when you're
stuck!
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try not to use more than 4 words from the
original article at a time in the same order.
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if there are lists, mix them up - you'll
find examples in the sample paragraphs we have done for you.
►If
the article has to be keyword-rich, now is the time to check. Go over
the article and see how you can substitute words there with the keywords
you want to put in. Then run the article through a
keyword analyzer
tool. You will see what the percentage of keywords is in your article.
(This is only if you are writing an article that has to be
keyword-rich.)
►The
last step and you simply must do this...... run your new article through
a copy checker. Just in case there are too many similarities with
anything on the Internet, change the words that are a problem around and
try again and again and again till you get it right. You don't want your
article to get rejected just because it happened to have a few sentences
that were oh so similar to something else, would you?
Now does all that sound too difficult? It isn't actually! You get the
hang of it and it should take you 20 to 30 minutes to churn out a
spanking new article. (Provided of course that you have the language
skills and we are taking that for granted here - and that you have the
typing skills and we're taking that for granted too!)
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