The phrase "asserts the importance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the significance or value of a particular idea, concept, or issue in an argument or analysis.
Example: "The author asserts the importance of environmental conservation in her latest book, highlighting its impact on future generations."
Alternatives: "emphasizes the significance" or "stresses the value".
He asserts the importance of experiences whose meaning he admits to not having plumbed.
Richard Powers compares poorly with these writers: his fictional work constantly asserts the importance of the human while never quite succeeding in enacting it.
Similarly, it is hard to see why he asserts "the importance of Christianity in our country" when "the Christian values of responsibility, hard work, charity, compassion, humility, and love are shared by people of every faith and none".
"I tasted freedom with him," Heaney says, and asserts the importance of being yourself, and going your own way, in poetry as in life: To get out early, haul Steadily off the bottom, Dispraise the catch, and smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt, Somewhere, well out, beyond.
Under a degree of fire for the suggestion that women should expect men to pay for everything, the following year they released Independent Women Part I – a song that asserts the importance of financial independence for women: "I depend on me," it insists.
Artemis Cooper's biography of Howard, which was also published this year, asserts the importance of Howard the writer, but also paints a painful portrait of a woman whose emotional life was often determined by the approval and attention of men – most notably, of course, that of her husband of 18 years, Kingsley Amis.
Croce and undoubtedly the political situation in Italy in 1917 played a role in this was anxious to assert the importance of art for humanity, and his assertion of it is full of feeling.
In both examples, the authors assert the importance of their proposed research by using the positive evaluative words such as "important", "powerful", "significant", "worthwhile" and "imperative", thereby attempting to convince the reader that the research field is justified on account of its prominence.
