In my project work I came up with a new method for solving a certain problem which has not been used before, by extending an already existing approach.
What type of wording should I use in academic writing to express this fact.
I wrote something in the lines of, but would like to have something more elegant:
Furthermore, in my project work I propose a novel approach by extending
X
and incorporating anxyz
mechanism to it in order to get betterZ metric
EDIT:
I would also like to say, that "something similar has never been done before to our knowledge"
something similar has never been done before to our knowledge
.