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MDPE.Application:5.3.1 - Begin with the difference the work needs

Use this method when a project can recognize a style or reproduce an example but cannot explain which distinctions should survive a change, how a method produces them, or which part a receiving performer can acquire.

Three questions can concern the same phrase without sharing an answer:

  1. Which stylistic distinctions remain recognizable under the selected changes?
  2. Which reusable operations, conditions and interactions produce or preserve them?
  3. What can this observer recover, and what can this performer learn and later do, with the available preparation, help and time?

A recording can answer the first question partly while concealing the second. A correct explanation can expose the second while leaving the third dependent on practice and provision.