A curriculum can be designed based on tasks required in academic courses in different subject areas. Predictive categories in expository text. In this essay, the author discusses prediction as an interaction between the writer and the reader through a text. Based on the analysis of different expository texts, the author identifies six categories of prediction and provides examples to illustrate the different functions of these categories in context. The categories are enumeration, advance labelling, reporting, recapitulation, hypotheticality, and question.
Enumeration involves listing.
Reporting is used to introduce the ideas of others. Recapitulation refers to recalling the readers attention to something that has already been mentioned in the text. Hypotheticality is used by the writer to present a situation in order to illustrate the message that is being conveyed in the text. Finally, question is the category used by the writer to call the reader's attention to a point that is about to be discussed. The author points out that these categories are combined in a text to communicate information to the reader.