The phrase "formulate a method" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to explain the act of creating a plan or strategy for achieving a goal. For example: "We need to formulate a method for improving customer satisfaction."
Do you realize what this means?' " Joyce's techniques, he believed, could be used to formulate a method of "focussed deterrence" — a systematic, repeatable version of the ad-hoc working methods that Joyce and his partners had developed in the streets.
A block model test was carried out to formulate a method to estimate the incremental deformation due to the opening of cracks.
Using consumer behavior theory, we formulate a method for minimizing perceived waiting time in phenomena which involve multiple waits or time delays, here applied to Web site design and the Internet waiting problem.
This research uses results from field surveys to formulate a method for simulation of office buildings to include the effects of window opening behaviour on comfort and energy use.
In the vortex particle method, in particular, one uses Gaussians of very small spread, which lead us to formulate a method of solution consisting of localization of the global problem, and improvement of solutions over iterations.
We formulate a method to select a CH with the criteria that too high bandwidth requirement has less probability of that node to be selected as cluster head as the role of cluster head itself demands much bandwidth.
In the late 1950s he began formulating a method for classifying finite simple groups, a task that absorbed his attention for the rest of his life.
The authors have formulated a method to calculate the uncertainty (confidence interval) of ROP predictions, which can be useful in engineering based drilling decisions.
With Abraham he published a series of essays on non-European music (including Japanese, Turkish, and Indian) and formulated a method for transcribing music from recordings; in 1904 they proposed an approach to the study of comparative musicology roughly parallel to that used in comparative linguistics.
Using large-format (8-by-10-inch [20.3-by-25.4-cm]) equipment with lenses stopped down to the smallest aperture, Weston, whose earlier career had been in commercial portraiture, formulated a method of "rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh".
