在编辑工作中经常见到一些冗长的稿件。为了精编,对这些冗长的稿件首先要做压缩的工作。压缩稿件决不是消极的为短而短,而是把稿件中最有教育意义的、最有指导作用的内容或材料突出地充分地介绍给读者。稿件写得冗长,通常有两个原因:一个是过多地写过程;一个是面铺得太开。这两种情况产生同样的结果:稿件的中心不突出,主题不鲜明,该说的问题没有说清楚,不必要说的说了一大堆。有一类稿件因为作者过多地叙述过程,因而往往要看到最后才知道它谈的是怎么一回事。举例说,有一篇写一个生产队管理碱地小麦经验的稿子,一开头介绍了这个队的碱地情况,然后叙述了党支部书记怎样带领干部、老农、技术员到麦田查土看苗。在查清了碱 Some lengthy manuscripts are often seen in editorial work. In order to fine-tune, the first of these lengthy manuscripts to be compressed work. Compressed manuscripts are by no means negative, short, short, but rather prominently presented to the reader the most educational and instructive content or material in manuscripts. Manuscripts written lengthy, usually for two reasons: one is too much to write process; one is too much face shop. Both cases produce the same result: the center of the manuscript is not prominent, the subject is not clear, the problem is not stated clearly, and there is no need to say a whole lot about it. Because there is a type of manuscript because the author describes the process too much, it is often the last to know what it is talking about. For example, there is a manuscript that writes about a team’s experience in managing alkali wheat. It begins with a brief description of the team’s alkaline conditions and then describes how party branch secretaries lead cadres, farmers and technicians into the soil investigation. After checking out the base