The phrase "an effort to record" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an attempt or initiative aimed at documenting or capturing information or events.
Example: "The team made an effort to record all the findings from the research project for future reference."
Alternatives: "a attempt to document" or "an initiative to capture".
She spent the chaotic days of unrest searching for the mothers of demonstrators who'd been killed, in an effort to record their stories.
Like the Griot initiative, which recruits African-Americans, Historias is an effort to record the widest possible range of American experiences.
THE Town of Southampton has completed the first phase of an ambitious census of its 47 public and private cemeteries in an effort to record local history and to deter vandalism.
In an interview with the Silicon Genesis Project at Stanford, an effort to record pioneers of the semiconductor industries, Mr. Hogan mentioned personal qualities that had also proved critical in business.
"I'm really curious about the parsnips," said Ted Russin, director of the consulting business at the Culinary Institute, who interviewed the chefs while they were cooking in an effort to record descriptions of their techniques, catch them adding and subtracting ingredients intuitively and understand the rationale behind the use of different flavors and ingredients.
In the West, ever since feudalism collapsed, "the market made an effort to record everything so that paper meant something," he notes.
With little notice and only occasional complaints, the American military and local authorities have been engaged in an ambitious effort to record biometric identifying information on a remarkable number of people in Afghanistan and Iraq, particularly men of fighting age.
This model of the skeleton at 10 mm represents the start of an ongoing effort to record organogenesis and the development of individual structures in 3D.
I liked using the PBA, and made a conscious effort to record things when I could.
The second author (DAAV) had made a serious effort to record basic data and the addresses of all the women who had a symphysiotomy in the UBH and the referring Matabeleland South Province district hospitals during 1990 1994.
Although no instrument of disease activity has been fully validated for its use in UPIA, experts felt that it was important to recommend that there should be a conscious effort to record disease activity.
