This was the point where I first started turning the Critical Report from a vague future task into something I could actually begin building. I had already gathered a lot of research through the Studio Practice, but I needed a separate plan for how that research might eventually become a 5,000-word academic argument.

At this stage, I was not trying to write polished paragraphs. I was trying to work out what the report needed to contain, which parts of the project were most important and how the different areas of research might connect.

Creating a Basic Outline

I began by writing very rough bullet points for the main sections I thought I would need. These included the project context, neurodiversity, independent travel, airport accessibility, primary research, sensory barriers and the emerging design direction.

The outline was deliberately loose because the project was still changing.

What mattered more was beginning to see the report as a sequence rather than a collection of notes.

The first useful shift was moving from “I have lots of research” to “what argument am I actually trying to build with it?”

Keeping the Structure Flexible

I knew the report would eventually need an introduction, literature review, methodology, findings/discussion and conclusion, but I did not want to lock the exact structure too early.

At this stage, some of the research areas still felt separate and the final project direction had not yet narrowed fully to airports and responsive support.

I therefore treated the outline as a working document rather than a final contents page.

What I Needed Next

The next step was to begin developing a clearer working title and research question so I could test whether the report structure actually matched the direction of the project.

This early planning gave me something to work from without forcing the report into a finished shape before the research was ready.

Early Process and Bullet Points

Before writing the report properly, I worked through the project by hand and created rough notes around the areas I thought would need to appear in the final essay.

These pages are useful because they capture the project before the structure became much more refined. The ideas are not all part of the final report, but they show the starting point I was working from and how broad the report still felt at this stage.

I want to keep these early notes visible because they show how much the argument changed as the research became more focused.

Original Planning Pages