概要写作(summary writing)是一种控制性的作文形式，要求学生“基于提供的一篇350词以内的短文，写出一篇60词左右的内容概要”。概要写作要求阅读者在忠实于原文的前提下，用自己简洁、精炼的语言来概括文章的主旨与主要内容。进行概要写作，学生必须具备以下六种能力：
1．提取段落主题句
2．提取关键信息
3．提炼、压缩段落主题句
4．整合、概括关键信息
5．改造、转换段落主题句
6．添加过渡词语，使行文衔接连贯
阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
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(自传) 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.
