Home in or hone in?

[MinnieMummy]

I've now overthought this one and can't decide.

Current sentence is:

To home in on their barriers to learning, follow these steps.

Should it be:

To hone in on their barriers...

Either way 'in on' is ugly... Shall I just change it to:

'To identify their barriers'?

"home in" is correct. But I agree it looks odd with the "in on" so probably would switch it to "identify" as well. HTH

Thanks, have gone with 'identify' in the end.

Don't you "hone" skills?

Hone means sharpen, so yes, you can hone skills, but it wouldn't fit in the OP's sentence.