The phrase "and more prescriptive than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the degree of specificity or directive nature of one thing in relation to another.
Example: "The new guidelines are more prescriptive than the previous ones, leaving little room for interpretation."
Alternatives: "and more directive than" or "and more specific than".
Combined with the demand on output – less time, more images – and a growing pressure to please advertisers, the process started to become less creative and more prescriptive.
"It is becoming more common and more prescriptive, in terms of what venues have to provide and their duties to hand footage over to the police.
But with Thomson's second assumption the one that comes packed in the word "should"—it's apparent that his review will be more prescriptive than descriptive, and will be more concerned with what he considers the movie's place in "the whole equation" (the title, of course, of Thomson's great history of Hollywood) than with the movie's particulars.
Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, said Mr. Obama would be "more prescriptive than he has been to date".
The president was more prescriptive than he has been previously in detailing what he wants the legislation to contain and how it should be paid for; this specificity was welcome, and much of the president's approach is sensible.
These criteria are similar to, but more prescriptive than, existing best-practise guidance for selecting sites for engineered CO2 storage and we believe that if adopted will increase CO2 storage security in engineered CO2 stores.
Though he publicly dismissed Hirschfeld, who had conducted his own sexual survey, as more of a special pleader than objective scientist, Kinsey was himself a lot more prescriptive than he liked to admit.
There was barely a peep of protest from the teaching unions, which welcomed the white paper through gritted teeth.Mr Blunkett will be more prescriptive than any of his predecessors: teachers will be given "guidelines" on how to teach subjects such as literacy and numeracy, and on how much homework to set.
