The phrase "a preliminary summary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing an initial overview or outline of information before a more detailed analysis or discussion.
Example: "Before we dive into the specifics, let me provide you with a preliminary summary of the project's objectives and key findings."
Alternatives: "an initial overview" or "a draft summary".
Mr. Cuomo's office allowed reporters to review a preliminary summary prepared by his accountants.
As it forecast in a preliminary summary, the commission blames the accident largely on poor decisions and other "management failures" by three companies involved: BP, Transocean and Halliburton.
The report is a preliminary summary of the evidence taken by investigators in August after their initial interviews with the two women and with Mr. Assange, who left Sweden for Britain in early October but subsequently refused to return to Sweden for further questioning.
According to a preliminary summary posted on Glaxo's Web site, the review found previously unreported cases of heart complications and deaths, but not enough to change the Glaxo trial's conclusions that Avandia did not significantly raise the risk of cardiovascular harm.
This review provides a preliminary summary of the various neuroimaging techniques that have been explored for in vivo imaging of AD.
In the questionnaire implementation stage of future projects, it will be important to contact participants via email, social networks and institutional platforms to provide them with a preliminary summary of the study in order to encourage them to become part of the sample.
In a statement issued through his lawyers following the hearing, and posted on Portsmouth Football Club's official website, Storrie said: "No evidence was served by those prosecuting, who did, however, provide an 11-page preliminary summary, the contents of which represent the same flight of fantasy as the earlier disclosure had promised.
In a tersely worded two-page preliminary summary of its opinion issued just moments after a one-hour hearing yesterday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit called the preliminary injunction "an unlawful prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment".
While news media reported the earthquake as an aftershock of the February earthquake in Chile, a preliminary geological summary issued by the USGS considered it to be an independent earthquake, a conclusion which seismologist Jaime Campos of the University of Chile also reached.
She then wrote a preliminary descriptive summary of each session and discussed these with the moderator (IW) until consensus was reached.
The first author (HGJB) wrote a preliminary descriptive summary of the findings and discussed it with the moderator until consensus was reached.
