This book is meant to be a guide for non-native speakers of English who wish to improve their writing skills, in particular their summarizing skills in the fields of economics, business and (marginally) law.<br />The language which will be taught in this handbook is English as a lingua franca; hence, the language used as a means of communication all over the world and, most of all, in Europe.<br />In particular, the reader will be requested to read an article and complete some comprehension tasks, or read a summary written by university students and learn by noticing recurrent writing mistakes.<br />The level of knowledge tackled by this handbook is between B1 and B2 (intermediate and upper-intermediate).<br />- - - -<br />The author: MSc in Applied Linguistics (Aston University, Birmingham, UK), adjunct professor of English at the University of Macerata.