The phrase "a sort of report" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles a report but may not fit the traditional definition or format of one.
Example: "The document I received was a sort of report on the project's progress, highlighting key milestones and challenges."
Alternatives: "a type of report" or "a kind of report".
In this way, criticism becomes a sort of progress report, a medical examination.
It's a sort of field report by a professor of anthropology who enrolled undercover at her own university to study the customs and folkways of college students.
One way in which we might improve and standardise our methods is by taking a leaf out of clinical trial research and using a sort of case report form (CRF).
Even before the first episode aired, critics were writing about the show as if it were, as Willa Paskin observed, teasingly, in April , 2012 "a sort of factual report about female sexuality dispatched from the front lines of gentrified Brooklyn".
In the six months since she was hired, Thomas has helped launch an internal database that gives employees access to the racial and gender diversity data of different teams across the company, a sort of diversity report card updated in real time.
Robinson says the 1990 agreement adds gasoline to the long-held fear that CSE is staged to become a sort of "Panopticon," reporting all criminal wrong-doing that comes across its path.
"Leonardo was still alive when his masterpiece began its inexorable decline," writes Pinin Brambilla Barcilon, who has been the chief conservator of the "Last Supper" for two decades and who has just completed, with Pietro C. Marani, a sort of surgeon's report on the newly restored painting, "Leonardo: The 'Last Supper' " (University of Chicago).
The new funding part of the chancellor's autumn budget statement, a sort of half-year report on the U.K. economy will be spent on big data and energy efficient computing, synthetic biology, energy storage, and advance materials, according to RCUK, the body that represents Britain's seven research councils.
The movement of living creatures triggers sensations, emotions and communication," said designer Bob de Graaf, in his 2011 unveiling of the project at Graduate show Design Academy Eindhoven, The two-robot team works based on a sort of scout-and-report-style workflow: Darwin, the solar-powered bot on wheels, scoots its way around a perimeter, seeking human companions.
"With most repossessions occurring without the involvement of law enforcement, parties often assert their rights in a sort of vigilante justice," the report noted.
