概要寫作(summary writing)是一種控制性的作文形式，要求學生“基于提供的一篇350詞以內(nèi)的短文，寫出一篇60詞左右的內(nèi)容概要”。概要寫作要求閱讀者在忠實于原文的前提下，用自己簡潔、精煉的語言來概括文章的主旨與主要內(nèi)容。進行概要寫作，學生必須具備以下六種能力：
1．提取段落主題句
2．提取關鍵信息
3．提煉、壓縮段落主題句
4．整合、概括關鍵信息
5．改造、轉(zhuǎn)換段落主題句
6．添加過渡詞語，使行文銜接連貫
閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)其內(nèi)容寫一篇60詞左右的內(nèi)容概要。
If you take a look at the bestselling books in the UK these days，it is almost certain that there will be a lot of autobiographies(自傳) in that list.Bill Clinton，Nelson Mandela and actor Michael J Fox have all written them.An autobiography is the story of a person's life，written by that person.It is usually a very famous person who might tell us all about their childhood，how they became famous and any other interesting things that have happened in their lives.
Traditionally，someone would write an autobiography when they were older because they had had a long，successful life.However，these days there are many magazines with stories and photos of the stars which sell very well.Reality TV shows are extremely popular and lots of people become famous very easily just from being on the TV rather than being able to sing or act well.As a result，people become famous very quickly and as soon as they are famous，a lot of money can be made from writing an autobiography，even if they are very young.
So now you can find an autobiography from almost everyone who is in the public eye.Even though we can follow the lives of the stars very closely on TV or in magazines nowadays，we maybe don't know how they live their lives from day to day. Autobiographies often give the information we never knew about the stars.The British public are very curious to find out more so they are very eager to read autobiographies.
Not every star wants to write though.Sometimes stars employ writers to write their life stories for them.The writer will interview the stars，listen to everything they want to say，record interviews and then write books based on their words.David Beckham did this with his book My Side.
Not everyone likes to read books regularly but they might like to read about the lives of stars.Autobiographies are helping to get more British people reading books.About 100 million autobiographies are sold in Britain every year.More stars depend on them for extra income and as more of these books appear in the shops，more people are sure to keep buying them.
