Collect moments of hesitation, not impressive phrases
Save a sentence when it solved a recurring problem or when you had to search for a better way to express something. The signal is not rare vocabulary; it is repeated communicative friction. Three examples of politely correcting scope may be more valuable than twenty idioms you will never use.
Keep enough context to remember the Move. A line without the situation that made it useful is harder to classify later.
Convert examples into a small set of reviewed Frames
Group examples by job, extract the smallest useful Frame and test variations. If two Frames perform a similar Move, add a Contrast that states when the choice changes. Discard duplicates and constructions whose constraints remain unclear.
The resulting set should feel smaller than the raw collection. Curation is the point: a working set is a shortlist of decisions worth practising, not a private landfill of copied English.
Return to the set through retrieval and new situations
A few days later, start from the job: “give a cautious status update” or “challenge the assumption without sounding aggressive.” Retrieve a Frame before reopening the original email, then make a new sentence for the current situation.
This turns personal relevance into more than motivation. The learner repeatedly maps the same structural relationship onto changing real content, which is exactly what future use will require.