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UnitReader use
ReadmeFollow an explanation through a changed question, a learner’s retry and a comparison that separates content repair from a change of form.
PrefaceConnect warranted accounts, reader-relative structural recovery and the language’s worked feedback relations.
Use profilesAdapt the Methods to instructional, technical/advisory and human–AI explanation.
Sources and dependenciesRecover relied-on contributions, supplying editions, limits and conditions for reconsideration.
Name and citationCite the framework and recover its local naming settlement.

Patterns by working question

§ID & TitleStatusKeywords & Search QueriesDependencies
1EXD.1 - Establish and Revise What a Recipient Needs ExplainedKeywords: question, purpose, contrast, changed condition. Queries: “Which question needs an explanation?” “Did the question change, or is the inference wrong?” Establish or revise the useful question and return a missing premise or choice.FPF A.2.9; EXD.4
2EXD.2 - Build and Bound an Explanatory ExampleKeywords: worked example, correspondence, analogy, counterexample. Queries: “How does this instance show the rule?” “Where does the correspondence stop?” Construct a discriminating instance and its consequential boundary.EXD.1; HCD.6
3EXD.3 - Coordinate the Expression of an ExplanationKeywords: prose, table, diagram, demonstration, access, cognitive load. Queries: “What should each form contribute?” “Is the repair missing content, a clearer expression or help?” Use one sufficient form or coordinate complementary forms for the receiving reconstruction.EXD.1; FPF C.37, C.2.8
4EXD.4 - Co-Construct and Repair an Explanation in DialogueKeywords: dialogue, feedback, changed question, diagnosis, close. Queries: “What does this contribution change?” “Should I clarify, repair, return a premise or close?” Adapt the next explanatory move to the actual contribution.EXD.1; FPF A.2.9
5EXD.5 - Guide a Recipient’s Own ExplanationKeywords: learner explanation, self-explanation, error, feedback, assistance, retry. Queries: “Which relation did the learner use?” “What correction and retry address that relation?” Obtain and interpret a recipient product with its actual help.EXD.1, EXD.2; HCD.9, HCD.10
6EXD.6 - Compare Explanations for the Recipient’s Use and Decide Whether a Repair Is WorthwhileKeywords: structural recovery, reader, effort, incumbent, marginal improvement. Queries: “What can this recipient reconstruct at these conditions?” “Which smallest repair is worth its burden?” Compare the actual contribution or retain a sufficient explanation.EXD.1; FPF C.2.8, C.11.CRC, C.11; ME.22, HCD.19