One of the easier tasks I have as a freelancer is rewriting articles for the Web, and I daresay I do it very well *smug*. It doesn't take a whole lot of skill to rewrite articles, and it certainly doesn't require extensive research, although it's always best for you to verify each claim made in the articles and make sure that your rewrite will contain accurate information.

At the moment, I do article rewrites for an Internet marketer-in-training, and thankfully, he has secured permission from the original authors so articles can be rewritten and used for his own ventures. Real estate, fitness, adoption, you name it, I've done it, and I reckon I'll be rewriting articles on an even wider range of topics in the future.

The fun part about rewriting articles is that you can correct any errors--grammatical or factual--that were made in the original, but another plus is that you will be able to learn quite a lot from them as well, and be able to exercise your writing skill, too.

"How could you call it a chance to use writing skills when you're just rewording articles?" you're probably asking. Because it is. Imagine how challenging it is to write things using a different approach while still conveying essentially the same message and information.

Of course, you should make sure that what you've written is virtually unrecognizable from the original. To compare the original articles and the rewrites, I use a nifty little program called DupeFreePro, which is unbelievably easy and works like a dream. All you have to do is paste the text of the original article in one window, the rewrite in the opposite window, then click the "Compare" button. I try to shoot for at most a 10% similarity between the articles, and you're home free if you only have a 5% similarity.

Rewriting articles isn't really the most profitable assignment in the world, but it's a good way to practice writing, plus it's still an easy source of additional income.