As someone who was encouraged to do something similar, it was akin to creating a template manuscript for the project at hand: sketch out the experiments you pla

As someone who was encouraged to do something similar, it was akin to creating a template manuscript for the project at hand: sketch out the experiments you plan to do, the likely results, and illustrative figures. This is meant as an exercise very early on in the project discussion phase, before any experiments have been performed, and while you're still figuring out the papers to read.