The phrase "a salient piece" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an important or prominent part of something, often in discussions or analyses.
Example: "In her research paper, she highlighted a salient piece of evidence that supported her thesis."
Alternatives: "a significant element" or "a notable aspect".
Beyond its entertainment value, symposium participants made clear, change blindness is a salient piece in the larger puzzle of visual attentiveness.
It's only one piece of evidence, but it's a salient piece, and it supports the liberal, not the conservative, war-on-terrorism paradigm.
Daniel Milosevic reminds us of a salient piece of economic history.
This implies that the extent of the telencephalic ventricular and meningeal surfaces in this fish is unknown, and this lack of a salient piece of information has led to the interpretational problems discussed in the final section of this paper.
The most salient piece of negative advertising that most readily comes to mind is her "It's 3 a.m".
Extractive summarization is to select the most salient pieces of information (words, phrases, and/or sentences) from a source document without adding any external information.
Using hefty, dimensional materials like burlap, and dried plant roots, and favoring a richly, fertile palette of earth and autumnal shades along with sensual, distressed, painterly surfaces and salient pieces of text, Orlet both honors and generates the symbolism of a kind of pagan art history.
Rather, they create new sentences that are grammatical, that cohere with one another, and that capture the most salient pieces of information in the original document.
Even in casual conservations, Mr. Perry inserted salient pieces of his message, particularly how 40 percent of the jobs created in the United States over the last two years have been in Texas.
A salient place to begin is with the grounding relation.
