'need further elaboration' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when you'd like to indicate that more detail is needed on the subject at hand. For example, you could say, "This line of reasoning is unclear and needs further elaboration."
Although Locke's ideas were radical even quietly revolutionary in his time, his answers to questions (1) through (3) would need further elaboration, and even some alteration, as the theory and practice of democracy continued to develop.
Robust estimation of those parameters, in an adaptive scheme is an issue that need further elaboration and is a subject of ongoing research along with the application to other problems of methods [28, 45, 46] that could directly benefit from an effective solution to this problem.
Likewise, the specific interactions leading to BMSC neural-like differentiation probably involve complex interactions with multiple proteins and/or signaling pathways that will need further elaboration.
Several problems need further elaboration when linkage of both systems will be done on a continuous basis in the future.
The molecular mechanisms still need further elaboration, but possible target genes include HIF2α and HoxA9, and the down regulation of C/EBPα [ 12, 13].
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy inclusion and radiotherapy optimization methods are two potential areas of interest that need further elaboration in multicenter randomized prospective trials.
His view of the current state of psychoanalysis needs further elaboration on two fronts.
Exploration of patients' dyads, however, is rare and needs further elaboration as to the significance of fellow patients.
If the point needed further elaboration, which it probably doesn't, the online games section of Lifetime's Web site offers one game called Fashion Solitaire and another called Hostile Makeover: A Fashion Murder Mystery Game.
And so the job description needs further elaboration to include that requirement.
Our findings reveal particular aspects of this synergy and point to areas needing further elaboration.
