The phrase "an organizing theme" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a central idea or concept that helps to structure or unify a piece of writing, a project, or a presentation.
Example: "The novel's organizing theme revolves around the struggle for identity in a changing world."
Alternatives: "a central theme" or "a guiding theme".
Finding an organizing theme or issue, these four potential contenders showed, is one way.
And science will function as an organizing theme, with a reading program focussed on science-related texts.
And science will function as an organizing theme, with a reading program focussed on science-related texts..
This seminar is a one-semester survey of the universe from the beginning of time to something akin to its end, with an organizing theme of origins.
How much richer the film might have been had it made Ms. Patel's imminent retirement and farewell an organizing theme instead of throwing it in at the last minute.
In the absence of an organizing theme for the biennial, Mr. Fung had hired the New York architects Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, who took part in his "Snow Show," to provide an organizing structure for the gallery space.
"And while that may be an effective organizing theme for a political party whose 'War Room' mentality has dominated it for the past ten years, it is hardly a governing set of principles".
The black family is a generative organizing theme that yields to discussions of community, generations and legacy, relationships between black men and black women, sexuality, and gender roles.
Some philosophers have sought to discover a large organizing theme, meaning, or direction in human history.
The story of evolution is, of course, ideal for teaching by inquiry (Farber 2003), as well as providing a logical organizing theme of biology (Alles 2001).
His group is attempting to get millions of evangelical Christians who aren't registered to vote to sign up and turn out this fall, by making what they describe as the administration's "war on religion" a central organizing theme.
