Beware of Cheap Writing and Rewriting Jobs – Work at Home

Copywriting is one of the most popular niches on online moneymaking and freelance websites such as GAF and ScriptLance, among other. If you have gone through different job listings under the ‘Copywriting‘ category on GAF or other work at home websites, you must have observed that cheap writing and rewriting jobs constitute a large chunk of jobs under this category.

No doubt, many of the cheap writing and rewriting jobs provide an excellent stepping-stone for the newcomers; however, I feel that under the disguise of cheap writing and rewriting, such jobs are often intended at exploiting the gullible and inexperienced providers. Based on my experience with reputed freelance websites, I have done a small study on the modalities of cheap writing and rewriting jobs. I am sure that this guide would definitely give you an idea on what to expect and how to go about while bidding for such jobs.

What do the Buyers Expect?

• A typical rewriting project specifies that ‘no research required’ and ‘very easy rewrites’.
• Besides, the buyer would also state that ‘all you have to do is to rewrite para by para without changing the meaning and structure of the paragraph, number of words being same or slightly more or less’.

How the Rewriting Jobs Originate?

• A buyer posts a project under the heading ‘cheap writers required for bulk jobs, often at the rates in the range of 0.5 to 1.0 dollar per original article (500-600 words).
• There are tons of people who are willing to take up such jobs, many often leave the jobs unfinished (for obvious reasons – how can one expect quality jobs at dirt-cheap rates) forcing the buyers to repost such jobs.
• If you do little research, you can see for yourself that majority of such jobs are canceled by the buyers without selecting the providers.
• Many of the cheap jobs might be successfully awarded to the selected providers, who in turn deliver the articles. The buyer accepts the articles regardless of quality and then posts new jobs under the title ‘rewriting jobs’.
• Under the disguise of rewriting jobs (with tons of instructions such as pass copyscape and few more bla… bla… such as very easy, no research and other gimmicks), the buyer would try to get poorly-written articles rewritten at another half to one dollar per article.
• The buyer might even repost these articles once or twice again as fresh rewriting job.
• After 3-4 rewrites, the buyer surely manages to procure A-Quality articles at less than 2-3 dollars, which can be easily resold at 100% profit.
• Out there are couples of genuine buyers who post rewriting jobs specifically for getting poorly-written articles rewritten by good writers.

How the Providers should Go About?

• Bear in mind that many of the original articles that are required to be rewritten are often very poor, full of typos, grammar mistakes and senseless sentence structures.
• In fact, sometimes you might have to redevelop the articles by doing proper research.
• Read the project descriptions thoroughly and get the instructions clearly spelled out from the buyers, before accepting the project.
• Although rewrite jobs may not require any research but it does call for one’s virtues of grammar, vocabulary, sense of sentence structuring in addition to the overall skills, knowledge and experience. Therefore, never fall prey to cheap writing and rewriting jobs.

Summing Up

It does not really matter what is the compensation for rewrite job, what really matters is that this job is treated at a lower status then the original rewrite, which I do not agree. Rewriting jobs should have the same status and reward should be on par. Vicious cycle of rewrites has become a common phenomenon on various work at home platforms.