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For a lot of students, the task of both organizing and coming up with evidence-based arguments on an issue for which they do not have textual sources is uniquely challenging.  \nBut there are ways to approach this situation to produce a well-evaluated essay, despite its inherent difficulty. There are elements of academic argumentation that apply to the rhetorical situation you are in when responding to this question that are, you might say, universal, and that can position you to succeed with your essay, despite being on unfamiliar content-ground. There are structures of argument, and argumentative moves, that can be deployed to help you achieve an “effective” score (7 or 8), and possibly even the highest score (9) .  \nStrategy  \nThere is a three-step pre-writing strategy that we recommend you conduct in response to Question 3 in the free-response section of the AP Language and Composition exam. You should execute this strategy flexibly; with questions that you have quick and substantial ideas on how you will respond, it would make sense to apply this strategy more loosely, using it to help structure your argument, for instance, more than identifying oppositions. That said, this is a sturdy, reliable strategy, which can serve to organize your thinking and help you produce an AP-approved argument essay in a very short time on a topic in which you are not well versed.  \nStep One: Identify Oppositions  \nRooted in every prompt or question or controversial issue to which you are expected to make arguments are oppositions, opposing terms, conflicting ideas. Sometimes these are multi-faceted, but often they can be expressed as a set of binaries. From these binaries, a straightforward or more nuanced position can be constructed. So, to get a handle on the question, to begin to think about how you can take a position supported by arguments, and to itemize evidence, you should first identify the core oppositions embedded in the prompt.  \nMost of the AP prompts provide terms and ideas that suggest core binaries, but don’t fully establish them. In this sense they are fragments that need to be completed or augmented through your own thoughtful analysis. So, for example, the 2013 prompt establishes a clear binary between Plato’s view that ownership hurts a person’s moral character and Aristotle’s view that ownership develops moral character. This is a core binary that can be viewed as a fragment, since it is up to the exam-taker to think through what binaries are contained within ownership’s impact on moral character. Further, the prompt adds the views of a third philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, who conceives of ownership as intellectual mastery. This is also a fragment, since Sartre’s understanding of ownership as cognitive is only implicitly contrasted with ownership as material possession.  \nIdentifying several core binaries explicitly or implicitly embedded in the prompt will enable you to see what your argumentative options are and to efficiently and even spontaneously generate ideas for evidence that will support certain options more than others.  \nStep Two: Manufacture Examples  \nAs part of the Core Binaries Strategy we are providing you with a simple graphic organizer in which you can identify three to five core binaries in the question. From there, under these core binaries headings, you should list the examples you can manufacture. 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