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Summary writing in reading classes has been used as a post-reading activity in that L2 learners can write from and about written texts. The purpose of the study was to investigate how much summary writing influenced word learning, including both familiar and unfamiliar ones, and reading comprehension. To complete the study, 34 college students who were taking a reading comprehension course had been asked to submit ten summary writings, as an assignment, after completing each unit for 15 weeks. In class, some reading strategies, especially recognizing and using text structure, were focused on for the students to be a strategic reader. The results of the study showed summary writing had a significant effect on recognition of familiar and unfamiliar words and reading comprehension, but not on final exam. Summary writing caused them to activate and use words and structures, not only the ones which have been exposed but also never exposed to them. The study suggests an intriguing possibility that attempts to write in L2 have positive effects on key components contributing to L2 reading comprehension regardless of how well writing is.