Writing a 50-word summary (Part 1) （英文閱讀、語言學必看）

寫摘要其實很容易！如果你選的故事有6頁，每一頁寫兩句話而每句話平均5～6個字，一下子可以寫72個字。經過刪刪減減之後，就可以輕輕鬆鬆地改成50個字的摘要。

1 Reread your story. What important things happened on each page? Write two sentences about those pages. If there are 5 or 6 words in each sentence, you can easily write 10~12 words per page. If there are 6 pages in your story, you can easily write 60～72 words (5 or 6 x 12 = 60 or 72).

2 When you finish, look at all of your sentences. Maybe some things are less important? Maybe you can put two sentences together to make one sentence? Maybe you can take out some words? Do this several times until you have 50 words. That's it! You have finished a 50-word summary! Here is an example, some sentences about the "Two-Gun Lil" story (91 words). In Part 2, I will show you how to change these 91 words into a 50-word summary.

1		When Lil Peters was a little girl, her father made her learn to shoot	14
2		When she went to college, she could shoot better than many men.	12
3		One day, Lil learned that her father was killed by a bad guy.	13
4		Lil promised that she would find the man who killed her father.	12
5		Garson Cade and Bunco tried to kill Lil with dynamite.	10
6		Lil was very smart, so she saved herself.	8
7		She then took out her guns and went to find the bad guys.	13
8		Lil found out that Garson Cade was the killer.	9