A report means to bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate as what has been discovered by a person sent to examination, explore, or investigate; as Engineers reports their work or experiment.

We hope that you found what you do in these communication courses stimulating, challenging and most of all, useful. They are designed to develop and extend skills you will use in your professional life. We also expect you will find the course useful in the range of communication tasks you will have as a student. The subjects issue an invitation to you to consciously become a researcher. 

Report writing is a formal report – refers in addition to the sources of the information incorporated within the document; this is done in terms of categories of sources. (I.e. general statements about how and where you gather your information from books, article, statistics, other report, interviews, e.t.c.