The phrase "this task entails" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something requires certain actions to be completed or certain consequences to occur. For example, "This task entails a lot of hard work and dedication."
This task entailed an evaluation of the local solar resource which became a large component of this objective.
It is argued that the recent criticism by Fodor (Cognition 75 (2000) 29) of "cheater detection" in the Wason selection task is based upon a false presumption about what the task entails.
Once it was clear that the participant understood what the task entailed, the experimental session was initiated.
It is important to note that this type of coordinated attention is a hallmark of a certain type of visual search task and that loading WM interferes when the search task entails this kind of coordinated performance (Woodman et al., 2008).
Mr Cameron should really be aiming beyond the referendum, to long-term reforms that would benefit the EU as well as its most irascible member.That larger task entails work on three things.
The sequence classification task entails assigning a sequence to one or more of a set of categories.
And you're not supposed to tell your partner what your task entails, as part of the success of seduction is the element of surprise!
Responding to the movie on Salon, Garett Reppenhagen, a former army sniper and longtime member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, acknowledged the narrow focus a sniper's task entails.
Even though our observed correlation is specific to the orientation cuing effect, our task entails the coordination of spatial and feature-based attention.
Our next task entails estimating the divergence times at internal nodes of each of the strain-tree topology candidates that we computed so as to optimize the weighted sum criterion, as described above.
