<openassessment submission_due="2015-03-11T18:20">
    <title>
        Global Poverty
    </title>
    <rubric>
        <prompt>
            Given the state of the world today, what do you think should be done to combat poverty?

            Read for conciseness, clarity of thought, and form.
        </prompt>
        <criterion>
            <name>concise</name>
            <prompt>How concise is it?</prompt>
            <option points="0">
                <name>Neal Stephenson (late)</name>
                <explanation>
                    In "Cryptonomicon", Stephenson spent multiple pages talking about breakfast cereal.
                    While hilarious, in recent years his work has been anything but 'concise'.
                </explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="1">
                <name>HP Lovecraft</name>
                <explanation>
                    If the author wrote something cyclopean that staggers the mind, score it thus.
                </explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="3">
                <name>Robert Heinlein</name>
                <explanation>
                    Tight prose that conveys a wealth of information about the world in relatively
                    few words. Example, "The door irised open and he stepped inside."
                </explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="4">
                <name>Neal Stephenson (early)</name>
                <explanation>
                    When Stephenson still had an editor, his prose was dense, with anecdotes about
                    nitrox abuse implying main characters' whole life stories.
                </explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="5">
                <name>Earnest Hemingway</name>
                <explanation>
                    Score the work this way if it makes you weep, and the removal of a single
                    word would make you sneer.
                </explanation>
            </option>
        </criterion>
        <criterion>
            <name>clear-headed</name>
            <prompt>How clear is the thinking?</prompt>
            <option points="0">
                <name>Yogi Berra</name>
                <explanation></explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="1">
                <name>Hunter S. Thompson</name>
                <explanation></explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="2">
                <name>Robert Heinlein</name>
                <explanation></explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="3">
                <name>Isaac Asimov</name>
                <explanation></explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="10">
                <name>Spock</name>
                <explanation>
                    Coolly rational, with a firm grasp of the main topics, a crystal-clear train of thought,
                    and unemotional examination of the facts.  This is the only item explained in this category,
                    to show that explained and unexplained items can be mixed.
                </explanation>
            </option>
        </criterion>
        <criterion>
            <name>form</name>
            <prompt>Lastly, how is its form? Punctuation, grammar, and spelling all count.</prompt>
            <option points="0">
                <name>lolcats</name>
                <explanation></explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="1">
                <name>Facebook</name>
                <explanation></explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="2">
                <name>Reddit</name>
                <explanation></explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="3">
                <name>metafilter</name>
                <explanation></explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="4">
                <name>Usenet, 1996</name>
                <explanation></explanation>
            </option>
            <option points="5">
                <name>The Elements of Style</name>
                <explanation></explanation>
            </option>
        </criterion>
    </rubric>
    <assessments>
        <assessment name="self-assessment" />
    </assessments>
</openassessment>
