The phrase "a linear progression of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sequence or series of events, ideas, or developments that follow a straight, sequential path.
Example: "The novel presents a linear progression of the protagonist's journey from childhood to adulthood."
Alternatives: "a sequential development of" or "a straight path of".
However, divergent thinking skills are largely ignored in engineering courses, which tend to focus on a linear progression of narrow, discipline-focused technical information.
The galleries that are closing next week for four years at the Met have offered one version of clarity in the form of a linear progression of objects, most made for elite patrons, mapped out by time and place.
But the overall transition from figuration to abstraction is not presented here as a linear progression of the kind we are familiar with from Western art.
"They are doubling back on a situation in which we really had a linear progression of evidence and a process by which we decided," Dr. Rosen said.
Participants are taught to write with a linear progression of logic, which leads reviewers through their applications.
In this series, a linear progression of the risk of invasive candidiasis and higher score was further observed.
More ominously, since 1939 there have been seven earthquakes with a magnitude of more than 7 points, all on the Anatolian fault and all marching westward from eastern Turkey in a linear progression to the gates of Istanbul.
Taking them out of context and then placing them in relation to each other in a book which becomes a context: a coherent linear progression of sequential information which can make something new happen and speak about this idea of the fear of unknown technology and its implications.
Taking them out of context and then placing them in relation to one another in a book that becomes a context: a coherent linear progression of sequential information that can make something new happen and speak about this idea of the fear of unknown technology and its implications.
So, to start, I think when I first I learned about evolution there was always an implied "march of progress," or a linear progression from one form of life to a next, higher and higher, up the evolutionary ladder.
Norris and Phillips (2003) emphasize that reading is not "a simple concatenation of word meanings, is not characterized by a linear progression or accumulation of meaning as the text is traversed from beginning to end, and is not just the mere location of information" (p. 229).
