The phrase "addressing a topic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing or focusing on a specific subject or issue in a conversation, presentation, or written work.
Example: "In this essay, I will be addressing the topic of climate change and its impact on global ecosystems."
Alternatives: "discussing a subject" or "tackling an issue".
And conveniently he is addressing a topic to which I was about to turn my attention.
Addressing a topic all too familiar to students in Britain, he also attacked government cuts to higher education budgets and the steady decline of resources, including financial support, available to students.
Addressing a topic as fraught as race would be challenging anywhere, but it is particularly tricky within the Smithsonian, a complex of 19 museums that last year got $761 million from Congress.
Now, in "The Time of Our Singing" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $27), Powers continues his inventory of the salient themes of late-modern life, addressing a topic that has so far resisted most contemporary novelists, and certainly most contemporary white novelists: race.
These events are telling historical markers in the background of an exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art, near Lincoln Center, addressing a topic that was not explored much — or even widely thought to exist — until about 20 years ago: Jewish participation in the Spanish visual arts in the two centuries prior to the expulsion.
Last August our own Michael Arrington wrote a post addressing a topic that's as important as it is sensitive: the lack of women who are running startups.
"It's a book that addresses a topic that's been written about many, many times but feels profoundly original".
His series of self-portraits about mental illness, Abstract Peaces, addressed a topic treated as taboo in South Africa.
In Seoul, a conference held in April, called "Integration of the Korean Peninsula," directly addressed a topic that was taboo in South Korea not long ago.
"Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health," by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, March 12), addresses a topic of paramount importance, the epidemic of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) in our community.
