- What we like about this initial proposal and what we do not like about this initial proposal?
- What are the potential ideas for improvement from this initial proposal?
- How do we achieve these ideas?
- How do we mathematically formalize it? What are the methods we want to use or modify?
- How do we evaluate? What are our expected outcomes?
- How can we do some preliminary work to portray confidence that our methods will work?
- What is the novel about our future proposal? How significant is it?
- What are the research questions that we are interested in? What will be our contributions if we are successful?