The phrase "general to specific" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are discussing a topic which starts from the general and progresses to a more specific example. For example, you could say: "The essay follows an approach that is general to specific, starting with a discussion of the broader implications of the issue before narrowing its focus to a particular case study."
Autobiographical memory (AM) is built up from various kinds of knowledge, from general to specific, via generative processes.
Generally, the interviews were broken down into two parts and moved from general to specific questioning (table 2).
This data was estimated top down (from general to specific).
Bioinformatics analysis revealed a relatively general to specific transformation of the involved signaling pathways from the early to late stages of differentiation.
This research will make use of a technique suggested by Pesaran et al. (2001) known as Autoregressive Distributive Lag Model (ARDL), which is based on the general to specific modelling technique.
To correct for serial correlation, we control for a sufficiently large number of augmentation terms (k) by employing the general to specific approach proposed by Ng and Perron (1995), setting k max = 12.23.
In agreement with the simultaneously recorded data [10], the pooled dataset from all of the recorded mice again show the existence of this overall hierarchical arrangement in CA1 cell response selectivity (from general to specific-response features) (Figure 6B).
In addition, this model as well takes sufficient number of lags to capture the data generating process in a dynamic framework of general-to-specific modeling framework.
As in Katrakilidis and Trachanas (2012), we adopt the general-to-specific procedure to arrive at the final specification of the NARDL model by trimming insignificant lags.
Accordingly, we estimate equation (4) and apply the general-to-specific procedure to arrive at the model final specification.
The book adopts a general-to-specific-to-general model for its textual structure.
