"explanatory work" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to work that is meant to provide an explanation, such as a piece of writing, video, or other form of media which provides an explanation of a concept to an audience. For example: "I need to complete some explanatory work to make sure my audience fully understands the concept."
That explanatory work was praised by Stanley Goldstein, the president of American Friends of James Joyce, a New York-based organization with members all across the country.
Sandra Mims Rowe, chief editor at the Oregonian in Portland during the years when the paper became known for its investigative and explanatory work, told me she still sees regional newspapers doing good digging.
For an activist, the low-level emotional and explanatory work – troll-fighting, assessing the motives of the argumentative, dumbing things down, hand-holding others through 101 discussions they've had a million times – is essentially kipple.
In some discussions, philosophers also envisaged an ultimate aim for the systematic and explanatory work of the sciences: the construction of a unified science in which nature was understood in maximum depth.
"In order to safeguard Russian citizens from being used as tools in the Britons' provocative games, the Federal Security Service organs have started explanatory work among the Russian citizens working for this organization," the F.S.B. said in a statement posted on its Web site.
It may be conceded that Baker makes and uses account-books arranged on substantially the same system; but the proof fails to show that he has violated the copyright of Selden's book, regarding the latter merely as an explanatory work; or that he has infringed Selden's right in any way, unless the latter became entitled to an exclusive right in the system.
The early Indian philosophers did not work with written texts and later often disdained the use of them; thus, there was a need for explanatory works of the utmost brevity that could be committed to memory.
All of them are pretty self explanatory and work well.
Each design is given a full page without explanatory captions, working drawings or even examples of the trademarks that were replaced.
FIQ pain was found to be the only independent explanatory factor for work in this study.
Without this work, explanatory journalists, columnists and even media futurologists are pretty irrelevant.
