The phrase "a method that encourages" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a technique or approach that promotes a certain behavior or outcome.
Example: "The program implements a method that encourages students to engage more actively in their learning."
Alternatives: "a technique that fosters" or "an approach that promotes".
Tying the level of payments to the value of a house is a crude method that encourages the subsidy of the wasteful by the frugal.
To study learning and memory in C. elegans, Murphy's lab had developed a feeding method that encourages the worms to make a Pavlovian association between food and an unrelated chemical odor.
Storyboarding in interpretive focus groups is a visual research method that encourages a different kind of participation and an additional way of communicating about sensitive sexual health issues.
Could an investment method that encourages us to use as little discernment as possible end up being too good to be true?
But perhaps we shouldn't be shocked if an investment method that encourages us to use as little discernment as possible ends up being too good to be true.
In summary, an analysis of our findings shows that although an introductory session is required, the MEEP is a new evaluation method that encourages student self-reflection, tracks student progress in skill acquisition and stimulates student-tutor interaction with a high level of acceptance by tutors and students.
Combining new transportation methods that encourage the principles of a healthy life style with traditional roads can raise land values, attract investment and activate the urban environment.
Since rainfall amount and distribution seldom match crop needs, farmers usually prefer tillage methods that encourage soil-moisture storage at times when crops are not growing.
Agricultural methods that encourage the planting of ever larger areas to single crops, which provides virtually unlimited food resources, has removed some of these regulating factors and allowed the rate of population growth of insects that attack those crops to increase.
