The phrase 'a kind of methods' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a class or category of methods. For example: "I'm exploring a kind of methods to increase productivity in the workplace."
"I always saw a kind of method to the madness," he said.
They may appear Neanderthal, but they are the products of a sophisticated performance, a kind of method acting.
On "There Will Be Blood," in an intriguing corollary to Mr. Day-Lewis's method acting, Mr. Fisk and his team often practiced a kind of method building.
Perhaps Leider's style this time out is itself a kind of Method acting, the rhetorical channelling of a past time and milieu.
It is a kind of method to detect the leakage of long-distance pipeline at present (Wylie and Streeter 1983).
In this paper, method configuration is treated as a kind of method engineering, focusing on adaptation of a base method.
It is a kind of method that takes the user's demand for spectrum into consideration in the distribution of spectrum.
Radar, serving as a kind of method for detecting, has wide-range application areas such as military, aviation, geosciences, and so on.
According to the low alignment precision of strapdown inertial measurement unit (SIMU), this paper puts forward a kind of method, which uses external information with UKF technology to improve alignment precision.
Through these criteria we also reflect upon the relation of MT to other design elicitation methods in order to propose a kind of method framework from which other designers may be assisted in choosing elicitation methods and in developing new methods both for eScience contexts and beyond.
