The phrase "account of the methods" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing or detailing the techniques or procedures used in a particular study, project, or process.
Example: "The research paper provides a comprehensive account of the methods employed to gather data and analyze results."
Alternatives: "description of the methods" or "explanation of the methods".
Some parts of Mr Aczel's account are excellent, notably his account of the methods used to detect planets around other stars.
"We say that their accounts are individually compelling and taken together give a good account of the methods used to groom these boys".
D'Souza's most recent book Whitewalling: Art, Race, & Protest in 3 Acts, is what D'Souza explained as a "journalistic" account of the methods of exclusion and appropriation often employed by museums as early as 1969 and as late as 2017.
Wasting no time, Follett launches into a vivid — and disturbing — account of the methods by which Hitler and his brownshirts consolidate their power: destroying newspaper offices, brutalizing political opponents and ignoring traditional parliamentary procedures, all the while exploiting a streak of virulent anti-Semitism.
As a natural extension of the recent publications in MSD, we provide in this paper a detailed account of the methods that can be readily used by mechanical designers to construct first-order elastic plastic property closures.
In part, his account was an account of the methods by which happy thoughts are integrated into the system of knowledge.
To deplore the fact that the society had taken no action over the past year to implement its commitment "to prepare a comparative account of the method of Newland and Britton and that of Meek for counting STV elections".
Whether would you have me bag the whole thing for my book, or give results and references with an account of the method?" The letters given in this book were originally printed in Part 5 of vol. 32 of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
This paper describes the rationale of the approach we undertook and provides an account of the method we developed and implemented on a prototype scanning system.
The early work of Schneewind (1963) and Rawls (1971, 1975) played up the dialectical side of Sidgwick's approach and the ways in which he anticipated the Rawlsian account of the method of reflective equilibrium.
A full account of the method used to apply the Sustainable Procedure Framework to the analysis of the procedures of implementing the EU Floods Directive in Sweden is provided by Hedelin (2015a).
