French synthesis comparison matrix: proposal, request or silence?

Edited by Chris Lee · Updated 8 October 2026 · About the library

Build a French source matrix with precise entries for proposals, requests and missing information. Use a museum dossier to turn one row into a synthesis sentence.

In short

Give each row a precise question and each column a source. Record the idea together with its status: envisagé, demandé, non précisé. An empty cell means the source leaves the question open; it supplies neither agreement nor opposition.

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Visitors and a museum worker discussing access in a quiet French art museum with framed abstract colour shapes and a stone sculpture; no labels. — Compare what le musée proposes with what visitors request. Illustration: Atelier

The museum dossier

Source	Passage
A · Museum team	Le musée envisage une ouverture le jeudi soir.
B · Visitor interviews	Des visiteurs interrogés demandent davantage de créneaux après le travail, sans préciser de jour.
C · Budget note	Le budget présenté ne précise pas le coût d’une ouverture supplémentaire.

A completed comparison matrix

Question	A · Team	B · Visitors	C · Budget
Which time slot?	Jeudi soir envisagé.	Après le travail ; aucun jour précisé.	Non traité.
What kind of statement?	Projet à l’étude.	Demande de visiteurs interrogés.	Information budgétaire.
What cost is given?	Non précisé.	Non traité.	Coût d’une ouverture supplémentaire non chiffré.

Matrice de comparaison · fiche

1 · Give the row a question

“When would it open?” produces comparable entries. “Positive or negative?” pushes every source towards a side.

Quel créneau est envisagé ou demandé ?Which time slot is being considered or requested?

2 · Keep the status beside the idea

A proposal and an agreed decision occupy different positions in the matrix.

une ouverture envisagée	an opening under consideration
une ouverture confirmée	a confirmed opening

3 · Distinguish silence from rejection

Use separate entries for a missing detail and an explicit refusal.

non précisé	not specified
explicitement refusé	explicitly rejected

4 · Carry the population into the cell

The request belongs to the visitors interviewed. Keep that group visible when drafting.

Les visiteurs interrogés demandent des créneaux après le travail.The visitors interviewed ask for after-work slots.

Le créneau envisagé par le musée correspond au type d’horaire demandé par les visiteurs interrogés, qui ne précisent toutefois aucun jour. Le coût de cette ouverture n’est pas chiffré dans le budget présenté.

The time slot considered by the museum matches the kind of hours requested by the visitors interviewed, who nevertheless specify no day. The cost of this opening is not given in the budget presented.

Read across the time-slot row, then use the budget row to preserve the implementation gap.

The matrix makes the connection visible: Thursday evening is an after-work slot. It also keeps the difference visible: the visitors have not selected Thursday. The cost entry records a gap in this budget. It gives no amount and no decision about funding. A useful synthesis sentence can bring those facts together while keeping each source’s contribution distinct.