The phrase "actual method" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific, real, or practical approach to achieving something, often in contrast to theoretical or hypothetical methods.
Example: "In our research, we found that the actual method of data collection was more effective than the proposed alternatives."
Alternatives: "real approach" or "practical method".
She said, "There's no difference between online and on-ground teaching other than the actual method of delivery.
The very fact that someone kills himself we regard as proof of intent — and of mental illness; the actual method used, we assume, is of minor importance.
The other downside of Nectome is that, in common with most cryopreservation businesses, the company doesn't have any actual method for reviving or uploading the brains it stores.
The actual method is constructed on the basis of ISO 140.
Although the actual method used - resonance absorption - is not used very much any more in NMR, this paper has many valuable discussions -- especially on relaxation times.
Also discussed is the actual method for merging any two adjacent levels and several computational and storage optimizations to speed the process.
Instructions like "listen to women" and "support people of color" are common directions, while actual methods and tactics go unmentioned.
There are ample displays about the men, women and machinery used to decode, but nary a word about the actual methods.
Many proposals for actual methods of empowering marginalized viewpoints within a deliberative democratic framework might have been vague at best (Chambers, 2003), leaving much room for improvement.
With regard to actual methods of education, ancient Chinese learned from bamboo books and obtained moral training and practice in rituals by word of mouth and example.
More general requirements, such as flexible regularization strategies, time-lapse processing and different sorts of coupling individual methods are provided independently of the actual methods used.
