"is devoted to explaining" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to indicate that something is focused on or primarily concerned with explaining something. Example: "This chapter is devoted to explaining the principles of calculus in an easy-to-understand manner."
Shizuo Tsuji, Mr. Tsuji's father, was the author of the ground-breaking book, "Japanese Cooking, A Simple Art," which is devoted to explaining Japanese technique.
Rather, most of it is devoted to explaining what the author sees as the three main financial "dominoes," or trends that cause extended ripples, like falling dominoes, in world markets.
A second spot is devoted to explaining to the owner of an auto repair shop, who is looking for "an edge," how FedEx can ship parts "from factories around the world" and "clear them through customs".
An entire chapter in the report written by the Financial Service Authority into what went wrong at Royal Bank of Scotland is devoted to explaining why no "enforcement" action was taken against the former directors or even the bank itself.
Thanks to paulburns for pointing us towards this New Yorker piece (and good luck to him with Churchyard Clay!) James Baldwin & the Fear of a Nation: "Today, like sixty years ago, much of the public rhetoric about race is devoted to explaining to an incurious white public, in rudimentary terms, the contours of institutional racism".
But its core businesses in areas such as online advertising are still stuck in the doldrums.Much of the first half of Nicholas Carlson's book, "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!", is devoted to explaining how the firm, which began life as a simple web directory created by David Filo and Jerry Yang and then grew into a web giant, got itself into the pickle that Ms Mayer inherited.
Forests are among the most diverse and complex ecosystems on Earth, and a great deal of effort has been devoted to explaining how this diversity is maintained (Hille Ris Lambers et al. 2012; Johnson et al. 2012).
The rest of the speech was devoted to explaining all the ways that Trump is the wrong choice, reasons that are by now familiar to anyone without a Make America Great Again hat.
Half of the Super Bowl ad for Xifaxan, the anti-diarrhea drug, was devoted to explaining all of the unpleasant things that can happen to people who use it.
