Objects to move
| A person (or group of people) who will be reading the report (and who the report is often written for) | audience | |
| The use of cautious/tentative language when making statements | hedging | |
| Results reached after examination or investigation | findings | |
| is a written statement to put forward a concrete solution/suggestion | proposal | |
| is a brief summary of a research article or report | abstract | |
| the style of a written report | format | |
| the general course or prevailing tendency; drift | trends | |
| is an evaluation and analysis of the potential of a proposed project | feasibility report | |
| a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or report | sub-headings | |
| individual facts, statistics, or items of information | data | |
| the interpretation (and possible reasons) of various facts and/or statistics | discussing data | |
| A body of practices, procedures, and rules used by those who work in a discipline or engage in an inquiry | methodology |