The phrase "a matter of description" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the nature or characteristics of something, particularly in contexts where the focus is on how something is described or represented.
Example: "In this case, the differences between the two theories are largely a matter of description rather than substance."
Alternatives: "a question of description" or "a case of description".
Crawford describes her abject childhood; as Davis listens with shocked empathy, she gives a matter-of-fact description of how she lost her "cherry," at the age of eleven, to her beloved stepfather.
As a matter of positive description, law is an integral part of a culture, and as cultural knowledge and beliefs about human nature change, law inevitably changes with them.
Whether we say that two things are similar or not is a matter of abstractness of description.
Dame Edna's cantata was so close to being a matter-of-fact, if cursory, description of Australian history that the evening took on the feeling of a hugely dull school trip.
Identifying these response conditions is a matter of identifying the correct functional description of those strategies (Kitcher, 1987).
And that being chosen was not a matter of status but of job description -- called to draw the world toward the Light of peace and justice for all.
The language of description is always a matter of equivalence (a word equals the thing it describes) and so cannot contend with the sublime.
Regius thought it was obvious that physical bodies are composed of insensible particles, and that their description is a matter of hypothesis.
Russell analyzes this difference as a matter of the scope of the definite description, though as we shall see, some modern logicians tend to think of this situation as a matter of the scope of the negation sign.
An alternate way of local interactions may be the local dendritic or somatic electrotonic coupling of pyramidal cells (Andrew et al. 1982; Núñez et al. 1990; Baimbridge et al. 1991; Mercer et al. 2006), which has been a matter of discussion ever since its first description (Knowles et al. 1982; Bennett and Pereda 2006).
