The phrase "actually assess" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize the act of evaluating or judging something in a genuine or thorough manner.
Example: "Before making a decision, we need to actually assess the situation to understand all the factors involved."
Alternatives: "truly evaluate" or "genuinely appraise".
With specific regard to the Wilson & Masel 2011 paper cited by the reviewer, these authors report ribosomal association to stable unannotated transcripts, yet did not actually assess whether these complexes were engaged in actual translation and synthesis of a peptide.
Unfortunately, many of these tools vary with regard to what they actually assess, how they operate, and whether they can be compared directly using assessment tools with buildings from other countries.
And then in the second round, I asked the people I was really interested in to actually assess some shows that had come in for development and to do write-ups on them.
I wanted to look at the people who were at the end of their career — in the twilight of their lives, you could actually assess what they'd done, what they'd hunted, what they'd actually harvested during their lifetimes.
Important details, such as who would be responsible for regulating the quality of imports and which officials would actually assess custom duties, were left to be decided later and remain unresolved.
Marc Ramsbottom, leader of the opposition Liberal Democrat group on the Labour-controlled council, said insufficient detail had been disclosed on the deal: "I am not criticising £2m for the stadium naming rights, because we cannot actually assess whether a better deal with Manchester City might have been done.
The report stated that fewer than half of detainees booked into custody who should have been risk assessed were actually assessed.
"So we had a good look at it, we assessed him, and actually assessed him this morning as well.
He was a figure of such grand influence that we cannot always be sure that we are actually assessing him accurately.
Yet, it is the only one that actually assesses the uncertainty of the parameter in question.
Validity of a clinical test can be defined as the extent to which the test actually assesses what it is intended to assess.
