The phrase "as an initial summary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to provide a brief overview or recap of information before delving into more detailed discussion.
Example: "As an initial summary, we will cover the main findings of the research before exploring the implications in depth."
Alternatives: "as a preliminary overview" or "as a first recap".
Some participants reported that their own lifestyle and body shape might negatively influence the counselling; however, the majority of participants did not agree with this perspective.> The presentation of the findings is structured as follows: an initial summary of each category is followed by a presentation of the included sub-categories.
An initial summary of our results have been made available as a technical report (Sobe et al. 2011b) to enable discussion.
I've written an initial, personal summary of the lessons on how the internet can assist and reinforce representative democracy.
Step 2. Run the software to produce an initial tabular summary of the cases.
Each author prepared an initial analytic summary, which were then integrated by JS.
We reviewed the summaries at our data analysis meetings and from these initial summaries we developed a draft template.
Sundance's initial summary of the film, which has since been revised, said the story unfolds as the Siegels' "time-share empire collapses and their house is foreclosed" and deemed it "a rags-to-riches-to-rags story".
Finally, we smooth the initial summary to overcome the semantic confusion caused by ambiguous or synonymous words, so as to improve the summary readability.
The "fourplot" is our one page summary plot of a recording which we use as an initial screen to check its quality.
As an initial step in examining how setting influenced the structure of care coordination, an analysis of narrative summaries was conducted to determine the similarities and differences in care coordination activities.
