Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
Note de synthèse
English translation:
Drawing up executive summaries (or summarising)
Added to glossary by
Anne-Sophie Aboké
Apr 4, 2007 10:06
17 yrs ago
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French term
France
Thoroughly researched translations
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France) 
Works in: English to French
Note de synthèse
French to English
Other
Government / Politics
Public administration
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
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
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 +6 | Drawing up executive summaries (or summarising) |
Conor McAuley
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| 3 +2 | précis/precis |
katsy
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| 3 +1 | text summarization |
suezen
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| 2 +2 | Preparation/drafting of management summaries |
Marc Glinert
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| 3 | summary/summarizing |
cmwilliams (X)
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| 3 | résumé |
ormiston
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Change log
Apr 4, 2007 10:21: Didier Martiny changed "Language pair" from "English to French" to "French to English"
Proposed translations
+6
1 hr
Conor McAuley
France
France
Native in English
Works in field
France
Excellence, Expertise & Experience
Native in: English (Variants: Wales / Welsh, UK, Scottish, Irish, British)
Works in: French to English, English
Related KudoZ points
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Drawing up executive summaries (or summarising)
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.
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.
Note from asker:
| ok! many thanks everyone |
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
suezen
32 mins
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Thanks, Suezen!
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| agree |
Marc Glinert
: yes, this is an improvement on my reply
39 mins
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Hi to you and thanks, Marc!
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| agree |
Christiane Lalonde
43 mins
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Thanks Christiane!
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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
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Hi Charlie, and thanks! Thanks for the extra info too.
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| agree |
cmwilliams (X)
1 hr
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Thanks CM!
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| agree |
katsy
: Yes, this does seem better than my own proposal in this context - and good on a CV
4 hrs
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Thanks Katsy, very honourable of you. It is a bit of a "cool" term alright...as demonstrated by the amount of hits.
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2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks Conor for your help"
+2
15 mins
précis/precis
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...
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...
Note from 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 |
| oups désolée, j'avais pas vu ta note sur "precis-writing". tu connais de cours de "precis-writing"? |
| OK. bon ben ça m'a pas l'air mal alors...! |
| bonbonbon... allons-y pour ça à moins que d'autres aient des suggestions? merci Katsy |
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Anne Diamantidis
1 hr
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Thanks Anne
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| agree |
ormiston
: précis writing is the academic skill (but here ?)
2 hrs
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Take your point ormiston - the other suggestions are perhaps better suited to the context
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+1
48 mins
text summarization
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
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
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
cmwilliams (X)
: I think we were posting our answers at the same time.
11 mins
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thanks cm
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56 mins
summary/summarizing
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
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
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1 hr
Marc Glinert
Native in English
Works in field
20 years in financial services
Native in: English 
Works in: English to French, French to English
Preparation/drafting of management summaries
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.
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.
Note from asker:
| décidemment que des propositions différentes, il semble que cette fameuse note de synthèse n'ait pas d'équivalent strict en anglais... |
| 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? |
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
cmwilliams (X)
: this sounds good for a CV
7 mins
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Thanks cmw
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| agree |
Anne Diamantidis
39 mins
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Thanks Anne
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2 hrs
résumé
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'
"get expert guidance on writing your resume.... "
In other contexts one could use 'topline'
Note from asker:
| merci de vous "décarcasser" autant ;) |
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