"formal techniques" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to specific methods or strategies used in formal contexts, such as academic writing or business communication. Example: In his research paper, the author utilized various formal techniques to present his findings in a clear and concise manner, including statistical analysis and structured argumentation.
His poetry experiments with rhyme, style, metre, and various other formal techniques.
They mix and match Surrealism, tantra, biomorphic abstraction and formal techniques of marbling without being merely a sum of these parts.
For a student with a basic ability to decode print, a reading-comprehension test is not chiefly a test of formal techniques but a test of background knowledge.
The issue is whether adopting more formal techniques based on the results of research in neuroeconomics, neuropsychology and other neuroscience disciplines confers an advantage in decision-making".
Once after I presented work critical of certain formal techniques for understanding vague language, Michael reproached me for lack of a positive proposal.
It's a paradox, and a fun one: their artifice destroyed, starry blockbusters like this can actually drift towards "pure cinema", the avant-garde impulse to emphasise the formal techniques of film – editing, sound, photography – above narrative.
— I hear the music but don't consciously register it as a formal technique.
There is a remarkable formal technique and artistry in this movie, a fascinating insight into state oppression.
She preceded other modern dancers in rebelling against any formal technique, in establishing a company, and in making films.
She went into this completely unarmed with technique, and by the time she finished in London she had her formal technique.
But part of me hopes that a writer as gifted as Lehrer will help push us into some new formal technique in future efforts.
