The phrase "assessing the problem" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the evaluation or analysis of an issue or situation to understand it better.
Example: "Before we can propose a solution, we need to spend some time assessing the problem at hand."
Alternatives: "evaluating the issue" or "analyzing the situation."
A NASA spokeswoman said engineers were assessing the problem.
A requirement for annual reports on all prosecutions of domestic terrorism and hate crimes, with relevant details, would go a long way toward assessing the problem.
In some places, damage was so extensive, and so many roads were blocked, that utilities had not even finished assessing the problem by midday Friday.
Overall, by systematically assessing the problem formulation and mechanisms, the results show that substantial improvements in convergence can be achieved by utilizing appropriate optimization techniques, thus leading to more successful and optimal parameter estimation.
The state has found high levels of PCB contamination in some flood plain areas along the river, and has asked the federal environmental agency for help in assessing the problem, said Michael O'Toole, the director of the agency's Division of Environmental Remediation.
Pepco, which serves the District of Columbia and most of two big suburban counties, Montgomery and Prince George's in Maryland, was so busy that it dropped its normal practice of first assessing the problem and then fixing it, and was simply telling its crews to do both simultaneously.
Reconstruction workers spent most of last year making emergency repairs and assessing the problems.
Andrew Billingsley argued that in assessing the problems caused by dysfunctional black families Moynihan had mistaken the symptom for the sickness.
Last summer, he was a member of a small federal advisory panel that was charged by Steven Chu, the secretary of energy, with assessing the problems associated with fracking.
The general status of structuralism is an important factor in assessing the problems these models of reduction seem to face.
After assessing the problems we plan on how the changes can be made.
