I’m writing a master thesis in the humanities right now after having worked many years as a software engineer. After some false starts, I have come up with a s

I’m writing a master thesis in the humanities right now after having worked many years as a software engineer. After some false starts, I have come up with a system of designing my thesis very closely to what the author is describing here. I call sketching “free writing,” and while I often design down to the topic sentence, I don’t do this for every single paragraph. But other than that my method is uncannily similar to what is described here. I also tend to think of paragraphs as “functions.” What are the parameters? I.e, what does the reader need to know for this paragraph to make sense, and how do I trigger those concepts. And secondly, what is the output? I.e., what is the one thing I want the reader to take from this paragraph? (...well some of my paragraphs return tuples, but that’s not ideal)