"develop an account of" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
You can use it when you want to explain or describe something in detail. For example, "The author developed an account of what happened to the settlers during the first winter in the New World."
But federal prosecutors concluded in 2001 that there was evidence to suggest that the officers might have worked together to develop an account of the shooting that would cast Mr. Busch as a dangerous aggressor.
Other feminists have attempted to develop an account of how male metaphors and symbols undermine philosophical arguments (Rooney 1991).
One example of this kind of approach would be to develop an account of the representational content of auditory experience.
Thus, aesthetics, as Shaftesbury and Hutcheson independently develop an account of it, gives encouragement to their doctrines of moral sensibility.
Martin (2004) offers a sketch of how a naïve realist might develop an account of partial hallucination.
It is not enough simply to develop an account of perception by which the things around the animal are impressed upon it.
But if people could write down factual stuff they could also write down made-up stuff, and there must have soon developed an account of the difference.
In the 1990s, the philosophers of language Jennifer Hornsby and Rae Langton developed an account of the mechanisms of silencing that could substantiate Ms. MacKinnon's claim.
However, none of these authors develops an account of this apparently more direct self-knowledge.
From this starting point, Cohen develops an account of "pure feeling".
How can nominalists proceed in developing an account of sentences like '3 is prime'?
