Well, I have all the English education of a high school student, so I'm not too clear on the difference between a thesis and a report. But now that you mention it, you might check out some theses by engineers? I know that all masters & PhD engineers tend to research some very practical stuff, but they still end up writing theses, so... might be helpful?

Although judging from the *ahem* writing skills of some of my fellow students, I'd say ignore the grammar/style and look for the content. *g*