“I wrote a précis of the research paper, condensing its main findings and presenting them in a succinct summary.”

“After providing a decent precis of the most famous passage from Mill's On Liberty, he totally misinterpreted what it means.”

“The hero's journey, however, need not be anywhere as simplistic as in the brief precis above.”

“It would surely be cheaper and more effective to release a precis as a press release for the media to report on in the usual way.”