摘要
As a useful kind of writing, summarizing, aiming at improving students' ability to input information (reading) and output information (writing), and should be emphasized at the advanced writing level, especially when postgraduates further their English studies. In order to have a deep understanding of the status quo of postgraduates' ability to summarize, this paper collected some data from the writing assignment and tried to give a detailed analysis of the problems, reasons and put forward some solutions.