The phrase "an effort to illuminate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an attempt to clarify, explain, or shed light on a particular subject or issue.
Example: "The researcher conducted an effort to illuminate the complexities of climate change and its impact on global ecosystems."
Alternatives: "a attempt to clarify" or "an endeavor to shed light on".
Ms. Davis, 44, spent more than two years following three jockeys in an effort to illuminate the difficult conditions of their profession, especially the harsh regimens they put themselves through to stay thin.
In an effort to illuminate how Catalano ended up in such a predicament as a result of her long association with Galea, Personius told the judge he was borrowing from an old pickup line and asked, "What's a nice girl like Mary Anne Catalano doing in a joint like this?" Personius noted that Catalano had first worked for Galea when she was 15 and developed a passion for sports medicine.
This study was also an effort to illuminate the issue and reveal the intricacies involved.
In this paper, modeling and experimental observations and quantitative data for rectangular and circular jets are compared in an effort to illuminate the critical phenomena involved.
To investigate associations between household food insecurity and multiple family well-being variables in an effort to illuminate previously understudied, policy-amenable mechanisms through which food insecurity threatens healthy development.
In an effort to illuminate factors delineating when communication with former romantic partners can be beneficial versus detrimental, this work examines how communication affects both the current and former relationships, and whether these associations vary as a function of one's self-worth being tied to the relationship (i.e., relationship-contingent self-esteem, RCSE).
In this case, it's a noble effort to illuminate the price paid by sex workers.
In the 21st century, we have the Transgender Day of Visibility, a modern effort to illuminate one of America's most oppressed minority populations.
First conceived by the German critic Walter Benjamin in 1927, it began as a relatively straightforward effort to illuminate the commercial culture of nascent capitalism by examining, in minute detail, the first Parisian "arcades," distant prototypes of our modern-day indoor shopping malls.
Fahs has worked her way through an extraordinary amount of popular poetry and fiction in her effort to illuminate the cultural landscape of these years.
Among the merits of "Diagnosing the Wrong Deficit" (Sunday Review, April 28) is Vatsal G. Thakkar's effort to illuminate the chicken-and-egg problem of causality between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms and sleep deficits.
