The second thing that counterpoints typically accomplish is to create anticipation that a related point follows. Not only are the two points explicitly related to one another, point-counterpoint sets also let the reader know to expect something else. Let’s take a look at what creating expectation would do to our example above. ‘While the introduction of your paper was well written, the conclusions were lacking in support. Adding ‘while’ or ‘although’ at the beginning of the first line changes it