The phrase "a straightforward version of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a simpler or clearer interpretation of a concept, text, or idea.
Example: "The author provided a straightforward version of the complex theory, making it accessible to a wider audience."
Alternatives: "a simple interpretation of" or "an easy-to-understand version of".
The state attorney general's office, which is charged with advising the Board of Elections on proposed amendments, had offered a straightforward version of the ballot proposal, saying only that it would permit commercial gambling.
All in all, this version of Tiger Woods feels like a straightforward version of its console bretheren with toned-down graphics and fewer features — career mode consists simply of tournament events, no mini-games or anything like that — but the gameplay and fun factor is definitely there.
Finally, he offers up a straightforward version of his feelings on his former foes: "I wish the band the Black Keys all the success that they can get".
In 1993, he released his first country song, a fairly straightforward version of "A Country Boy Can Survive," the defiant cultural-pride song by Hank Williams, Jr.
His performance of Company and Sorry started off as a son-et-lumière extravaganza, with lights playing over a semi-transparent curtain, behind which Bieber danced, but soon settled into a pretty straightforward version of Sorry, with the newly-shorn singer offering a few Michael Jacrotchstyle crotch grabs to cheer it up.
Coldplay went the other direction with an effective, straightforward version of "The Scientist".
At the last minute, the leadership substituted a straightforward version, H.J. Res. 2, in lieu of the spending limitation amendment reported by the House Judiciary Committee that I criticized last week.
Using a simplified but straightforward version of this gradient theory, we can connect it with a static version of Eringen's nonlocal elasticity.
(Owners of Google's recent Nexus phones typically get the update quickly, as Google puts out its own straightforward version of Android).
The most straightforward version of this model is one in which individuals summon AVs on a one-off basis when they need to get somewhere, paying per ride or per mile — effectively, a driverless version of how Uber or Lyft work today.
The most straightforward version of this type of analysis, to which we hereinafter refer to as 'genome-tree' building, involves scaling-up the traditional tree-building approach and analyzing the phylogenetic trees for multiple gene families (in principle, all families represented in many genomes), in an attempt to derive a consensus, 'organismal' phylogeny [ 3- 5].
