Note de synthèse

English translation: Drawing up executive summaries (or summarising)

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French term or phrase:	Note de synthèse
English translation:	Drawing up executive summaries (or summarising)
Entered by:	Anne-Sophie Aboké

10:06 Apr 4, 2007

French to English translations [PRO]
Government / Politics / Public administration

French term or phrase: Note de synthèse

Bonjour,

Pour mon cv à traduire en anglais UK, je cherche comment dire "note de synthèse". Il s'agit d'une matière enseignée dans les établissements d'administration, visant à faire la synthèse écrite de nombreux documents (parfois plus de 60 pages) pour le transmettre à son supérieur, c'est aussi une épreuve des concours de la fonction publique.
j'ai trouvé "synthetic note", "notes" et "overview". Le premier me paraît trop littéral et peu employé, le deuxième trop vague et le dernier trop général...

Merci

Anne-Sophie Aboké KudoZ activity Questions: 190 (7 open) (1 without valid answers) (34 closed without grading) Answers: 22 France
Local time: 03:32

Drawing up executive summaries (or summarising)

Explanation:
Are 34 million hits convincing enough??? ;-)

http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q="executive summary"&meta...

pour le transmettre à son supérieur > to executives > executive summary

http://www.bplans.com/dp/executivesummary.cfm

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-04-04 11:24:33 GMT)
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I was asked to do one last year for a client, the aim was to reduce a report into short, digestible form for a busy executive, an executive who did not have the time to read the full report but wanted to know what the main points of it were.

Selected response from:

Conor McAuley
France
Local time: 03:32

Grading comment

Thanks Conor for your help
2 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +6

Drawing up executive summaries (or summarising)

Conor McAuley

3 +2

précis/precis

katsy

3 +1

text summarization

suezen

2 +2

Preparation/drafting of management summaries

Marc Glinert

summary/summarizing

cmwilliams (X)

résumé

ormiston

Discussion entries: 2

Answers

15 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

note de synthèse précis/precis

Explanation:
don't know if this is too old-fashioned, but here's a definition:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pr�cis

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Note added at 24 mins (2007-04-04 10:31:32 GMT)
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As it's one of the 'papers' for a concours, as you say, just to add that one can have classes in 'precis-writing'.
I mention the 'old-fashioned' bit because it's what we said when I was a student, many years ago!

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Note added at 32 mins (2007-04-04 10:39:05 GMT)
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C'est ce qu'on faisait, (en GB), et c'est ce que je dirais encore aujourd'hui (mais je travaille ds un contexte français...). Je suis sûre que ce terme ne contient pas de sous-entendu de publication (cf definition ci-dessus) Mon hésitation vient du fait qu'il existe peut-être un terme plus 'moderne'...

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Note added at 34 mins (2007-04-04 10:40:42 GMT)
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Eureka! Check out 'précis writing' on Google.... seems to me to be very relevant...

katsy
Local time: 03:32
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 14

Notes to answerer

Asker: je ne sais pas quoi en penser... peut-être suis-je trop influencée par le précis en français qui sous-entend une publication. ce qui n'est pas le cas ici. mais merci quand même

Asker: oups désolée, j'avais pas vu ta note sur "precis-writing". tu connais de cours de "precis-writing"?

Asker: OK. bon ben ça m'a pas l'air mal alors...!

Asker: bonbonbon... allons-y pour ça à moins que d'autres aient des suggestions? merci Katsy

48 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

text summarization

Explanation:
just to give you an alternative
reading works best, and that "outlining and precis writing are actually ... Day, J. D. Teaching summarization skills: A comparison of training methods. ...
steinhardt.nyu.edu/teachlearn/research/ncrll/Berger_Robinson.pdf
Text Summarization Challenge 2 Text summarization evaluation at NTCIR Workshop 3 ...
www.denizyuret.com/bibtex.php?field=title&fn=index - 597k
Text Summarization Symposium (Saggion and Lapalme, ... Russell, P. (1988). How to Write a Precis . University of Ottawa Press. ...
www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~saggion/TheThesis.ps
According to ALTERMAN, text summarization is not a single phe- ...
www.db.dk/binaries/subject access points.pdf

suezen
Local time: 03:32
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 47

56 mins confidence:

summary/summarizing

Explanation:
summarizing skills

t was created in 1945 in Paris by Charles de Gaulle and has now been almost ... a note de synthèse (summarizing 40 to 70 pages of documents) in either (at ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_nationale_d'administration

capacité de synthèse strong analytical and summarizing skills it means the person can summarize ... Note added at 15 hrs 27 mins (2005-01-28 08:40:06 GMT) ...
www.proz.com/kudoz/924755

cmwilliams (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:32
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

Drawing up executive summaries (or summarising)

Conor McAuley
France
Local time: 03:32
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 25

Grading comment

Thanks Conor for your help

Notes to answerer

Asker: ok! many thanks everyone

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

suezen

32 mins

-> Thanks, Suezen!

agree

Marc Glinert: yes, this is an improvement on my reply

39 mins

-> Hi to you and thanks, Marc!

agree

Christiane Lalonde

43 mins

-> Thanks Christiane!

agree

Charlie Bavington: altho a mere 30.5 million hits on google.co.uk :-) And in case the asker has any doubts about "executive", altho originally it meant "summaries for exectives", it's now in general usage for anything that summarises a longer document, whoever it is for.

50 mins

-> Hi Charlie, and thanks! Thanks for the extra info too.

agree

cmwilliams (X)

1 hr

-> Thanks CM!

agree

katsy: Yes, this does seem better than my own proposal in this context - and good on a CV

4 hrs

-> Thanks Katsy, very honourable of you. It is a bit of a "cool" term alright...as demonstrated by the amount of hits.

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Preparation/drafting of management summaries

Explanation:
This one harder than it seems.

I feel this has more of a professional and less of an academic ring to it.

Why management?..because the said document are written for the public servant's boss (it says so above).

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-04-04 12:00:47 GMT)
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Thanks for the comment, chidza. As I said...
Why management?..because the said document are written for the public servant's boss (her 'manager'), but yes I accept that there could be some ambiguity.

Marc Glinert
Local time: 03:32
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

Notes to answerer

Asker: décidemment que des propositions différentes, il semble que cette fameuse note de synthèse n'ait pas d'équivalent strict en anglais...

Asker: may be could I write the following : "note de synthèse" (drafting of management summaries)? but a note de synhtèse deals about various topic except management (management and organisation of enterprises, staffing relations). do you know what I mean? isn't management ambiguous?

2 hrs confidence:

résumé

Explanation:
popping this in as it IS used in English like précis (not sure about how many accents it would need, my thesaurus puts both but this web article gives none :

"get expert guidance on writing your resume.... "
In other contexts one could use 'topline'

ormiston
Local time: 03:32
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

Notes to answerer

Asker: merci de vous "décarcasser" autant ;)

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