REPORTS : There are two kinds of report that you may be called on to write in connection with your work. The first may concern an investigation or enquiry that you have been making, e.g., an experiment, and the second may arise because you have some information that you wish, or have been instructed, to pass on, e.g. after an accident or other mishap.

Scientific reporting is covered in unit 8. Accurate reporting of experiments allows them to be repeated as verification. Other kinds of reports may be either informal or formal and often concern a particular set of circumstances that may need action or decisions from someone in authority, e.g. ahead of department .

In this text it is impossible to work through all the cases in which you communicate with people at work but this section will have introduced the basic ground so that the underlying principles and procedures are apparent to you.