The phrase "a brief text" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a short piece of writing or a concise message.
Example: "Please provide a brief text summarizing the main points of the article."
Alternatives: "a short message" or "a concise passage".
A brief text message about a week ago and that was it.
Writer describes the artists' work in a brief text.
A large man with a ready smile, he read from a brief text in Italian, but with fervor.
A brief text reads "Got prostate cancer?" Below that phrase, it asserts, "Drinking milk contributes to prostate cancer".
Endpapers are plain and the page design is consistent, with a brief text on white pages facing framed or full-bleed watercolor illustrations.
Mr. Ai said in a brief text message that he took the action after having been "told by police to shut down".
A week before the game, I responded to a legitimate Craigslist ad, and after a brief text-message negotiation, gratefully unloaded my two nosebleed tickets — which I had since come to loathe — to a Miami-based broker for twenty-two hundred dollars, which was two hundred less than I had paid.
These were Healthwise's Breast Cancer Surgery (BCS), web-based information, Bastian&McBrides Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), an illustrated booklet, and Wolf et al's Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) screening, a brief text-based script.
By filling out a questionnaire posted on Inshop's site, selecting favorite shopping locations, brands and products, users can customize alerts, which appear a few times a day as brief text messages on their cell phones, pagers or modem-linked PDA's.
Researchers gave 126 undergrads a series of brief text messages -- represented as a phone screen printed on paper (because, you know, budgets) -- to evaluate on a scale from most to least "sincere".
Behind a very simple structure, brief text and beautiful illustrations can lie truths that are timeless.
