"work set out" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an action plan or strategy that has been put in place. For example, "The team prepared a detailed work set out to ensure the project was completed on time."
My work set out to document, for the first time, whether compassion can be communicated via touch.
This passage precisely answers Mayhew's own criteria for his work, set out in the preface to the final edition of a four-volume work.
If the informal approach doesn't work, set out your concerns in writing, first to the teacher, then to the head of year then the headteacher.
He says Brink has, in his more recent work, set out to try to "renew or create" a South African literature.
This work set out to produce splats from different droplet sizes (20 40 μm, 40 60 μm and 60 80 μm), and then determine the deposit characteristics and mechanical properties.
Becker's work set out to show that out-groups weren't made up of people who couldn't keep the rules; they were made up of people who kept other kinds of rules.
This work sets out to compare previously measured temperatures at different positions inside such a batch reactor with values computed numerically and analytically.
Industrial flows are affected by varying degrees of geometric complexity and the present work sets out to quantity the effect of varying geometric complexity on the agreement between industrial standard CFD simulations and experimental results.
Straddling popular science, ancient history, and theology, this ambitious work sets out to resolve not only the clash of civilizations between the Judeo-Christian West and the Muslim world but also the clash between science and religion.
Objectives: This work sets out to assess potential gender inequalities in Wikipedia articles along different dimensions.
These are the sources that the present work sets out to mine.
