I am writing a formal technical report and I would like some advice about an expression I want to use. I have a sentence which I want to make more formal:
The merit of their approach is that there is not a need of designing a fusion strategy for the several modalities.
Basically I want to change the ‘there is not a need for’ to something more formal. Any suggestions?
"The merit of their approach is that it circumvents the necessity of designing ..."
circumvent verb: find a way around (an obstacle).
• overcome (a problem or difficulty), typically in a clever and surreptitious way. "I found it quite easy to circumvent security";
synonyms: avoid, get around, get past, evade, bypass, sidestep, dodge; informal duck; "the checkpoints were easy to circumvent"; Google circumvent
The merit of their approach is that there is not a need of designing a fusion strategy for the several modalities.
In general the determiner "no" can be more concise than a combination of a negated auxiliary and a. In other words There is no need might be more elegant here than "There is not a need". Secondly, the noun need normally takes preposition phrases headed by the preposition for or infinitival clauses. So the Original Poster's sentence might read better thus:
The merit of their approach is that there is no need to design a fusion strategy for the several modalities.
The merit of their approach is that it eliminates the need for multiple/several fusion strategies.
Or to the extent that my rewording changes the meaning too much:
…eliminates the need to design/for designing a [different/separate] fusion strategy for [each of] the several modalities.
(For other good alternatives to “eliminates the need [for/to],” see the answers to this somewhat related question: What's a word for "to eliminate the need for"?)
What about "Obviates the need"?
