Thursday, March 19, 2009

Dig The Thinkin', Spin The Writin'

College students often find themselves rushing at last minutes for a written submission or report to be handed up the next day.

Most of time, before you put down anything, you search on Google for the topic. Sometimes you find an article or part of it very useful for what you gonna write about. It's simple if you can just copy-paste the thing to your paper. But the paper will be checked for plagiarism and it scares the heck out of ya. So you spend more time just to read and try to understand the article and rewrite it in your own word. Sometimes it can be time-consuming.

I will tell you some tools to help you in the rewriting process or automate it.

There are applications to help you rewrite the article by suggesting good replacement. Some well-known ones are Power Article Rewriter or WordFlood. But you have to buy the programs.
You can also use a dictionary program that has the synonym/antonym function like WordWeb to help you spin words.

There are a number of free online services to do the job for you.
BadArticle
AutoRewrite
QuickContentWizard

Another way is to utilize free online translation services. There are many of em but Google is always preferred due to its huge language database. It helps if you know a second language. Find an article about the topic in a non-English language. What you gonna do is translate that article 1-2 rounds into other non-English languages before translate it into English. It's good if the languages you are buffering through is under same language family (like East Asian family or Germanic family) because the structure and grammar of the content will be preserved.

Now try these tools and start posting your spinned content. And remember to give me your links at comment :)

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