Focusing on the issue that extractive summarization needs to automatically produce a short summary of a document by concatenating several sentences taken exactly from the original material. A single document automatic summarization algorithm based on word-sentence co-ranking was proposed, named WSRank for short, which integrated the word-sentence relationship into the graph-based sentences ranking model. The framework of co-ranking in WSRank was given, and then was converted to a quite concise form in the view of matrix operations, and its convergence was theoretically proved. Moreover, a redundancy elimination technique was presented as a supplement to WSRank, so that the quality of automatic summarization could be further enhanced. The experimental results on real datasets show that WSRank improves the performance of summarization by 13% to 30% in multiple Rouge metrics, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.