Thursday, February 12, 2009

Credibility

Rob Greene: Real or not?
By Joe Rausa

Robert Greene, an English teacher at Nashua High School South (NHSS), is a credible and well fit. Greene, who specializes in journalism and poetry classes, is exactly who he says he is.
When anyone is hired to work in the Nashua School District, they are put through both a background check and a check to make sure they are qualified to work in their specific job.
“Whoever gets hired by the school district is who they say they are” says the main office secretary at NHSS.
This fact alone proves that Greene is at least a credible source to teach his classes.
While looking at Greene’s resume posted on his Web site his past jobs were fact checked with trusted sources such as websites not made by Greene and other NHSS employees.
In Greene’s resume, he claims that he worked as the Director of Communications at an Albany, N.Y. based company named The Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS). The company’s website confirms he worked there with a name and a picture from 2004. Greene also edited the e-zine Humanist Network News which was a weekly free online magazine says the annual report.
Greene’s full name, Robert William Wright Greene was matched to a 37-year-old man who resided in towns across New England on the US Search Information Web site. These addresses match where Greene says he lives on his Web site.
As an assignment for his poetry class Greene challenged his students to prove that he was a credible source by fact-checking his past. Greene also refused to answer any questions during this process.

2 comments:

  1. This is decent but I would have liked to see a little more character development. I'm also not convinced this information is absolutely credible.

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  2. "Robert Greene ... is a credible and well fit." He's a what?

    Organization is solid. 5
    GUMS: AP Style is lacking in many places. Commas with quotes. Web sites, etc. 4
    Effectivness: Attribution is solid and I'd say you confirmed enough facts to prove your point. 5
    Word Choice: What's up with that lede? 3.5
    17.5/20

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