Question:I am constantly hearing that people are able to rewrite -- or write an article in 15 or 30 minutes.
What is the best method for doing this -- either manually or using software?

Answer:The best method is to write quality articles that you are proud to have associated with your name.Search engines LOVE new content, and that means articles that have new thoughts, as well as different structure and wording. Readers do not want to read articles that they have read before, even if the words were slightly different. Fresh, original content will win hands down every time in my book. Why bother with a re-write of someone else's ideas? Use your own and come up with a unique article that no-one else could have written.Go for quality, unique, and original articles that attract readers to your site, without worrying about "rewrites"! You will gain far more traffic and respect from your readers.
Rewrite article tools:
John Schwartz-Become a lightning fast rewriter
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Andy Blacks-Easy article writer

Thanks to Peter Burke for this reply
Here's the technique I use - Its a bit similar to Rich Jerks entry

Start with your article - make sure its good quality and usually no more than 450 words.

1. Break the article up sentence by sentence on notepad

2. Cut and paste the contents of notepad onto an excel spreadsheet.

3. Create 4 empty lines between each sentence.

4. Start writing 2 - 3 sentences underneath.

5. When that's finished - save it! ( sometimes glitches happen - so you need a master copy)

Here's the fun part create a new notepad file.

Make sure you are familiar with spinning syntax - a bit of practice is usually sufficient to master it!

Take each sentence and paragraph and put in spintax format. If you aren' t sure about this just do a paragraph initially - trust me this will save tons of time later.

If you haven't already sign up for the free version of jetspinner. There's some information on there how to do spintax etc.

Paste in your paragraph if you want to test it or the whole thing and create an output file of 4 to 'test' that the paragraphs have all come out etc.

If everything has worked then that can produce up to 30 articles that are at least 50% unique. Test them in dupecop.com if you're not sure

This whole process usually takes me less than an hour and it's a lot cheaper than paying $5 or more for inferior quality!