How lazy can you be when it comes to writing articles for sites?

Question

Can you just take another article reword it in your own words and lay it out in a different structure? Or will Google notice the connection? Also, will sites like ezine ban you if you just reword another article already on your site? I'm not referring to article spinning either. Right now, my method is to use two articles as a reference and combine both contents in my own words/structure.

The question is, exactly how lazy can you be with this? Right now it's taking me way too long to write articles.. 90-120 minutes per 1,000 word article.

Answer 1

Most lazy graps articles from another sites and publish to his site without modification.
Second buys article from another writer.
Third lazy uses rewriter tools.