Chris Wilcha's documentary about his time working at Columbia House

Assignment will be graded on the followin" rel="nofollow">ing min" rel="nofollow">inimum criteria (assumin" rel="nofollow">ing all in" rel="nofollow">instructions and entire prompt are addressed appropriately, in" rel="nofollow">in completion, and on time):1. Include an excellent understandin" rel="nofollow">ing of the required readin" rel="nofollow">ings and underlyin" rel="nofollow">ing concepts. 2. Postin" rel="nofollow">ings in" rel="nofollow">integrate relevant examples to support important poin" rel="nofollow">ints. 3. Well-edited quotes in" rel="nofollow">include source in" rel="nofollow">information. No more than 10% of the postin" rel="nofollow">ing is a direct quotation. 4. Posts follow the expectations for respectful onlin" rel="nofollow">ine dialogue (discussed above). 5. Posts are long enough to provide a unique, thoughtful, and detailed response to the prompt (and meets min" rel="nofollow">inimum word count when specified). 6. Posts are free of grammatical, spellin" rel="nofollow">ing, and/or other conventional errors. 7. Posts are clear and concise (not wordy). Watch Chris Wilcha's documentary about his time workin" rel="nofollow">ing at Columbia House, briefly provide your thoughts on the film, and respond to the followin" rel="nofollow">ing questions: • This was filmed in" rel="nofollow">in the early-/mid-1990s when, as Spin" rel="nofollow">inuzzi argues, many organizations were shiftin" rel="nofollow">ing from strictly bureaucratic structures to in" rel="nofollow">institutional adhocracies. Do you see evidence of this shift in" rel="nofollow">in Wilcha's film? • Wilcha shows us how the larger discourse of Columbia House is divided up in" rel="nofollow">into various sub-discourses. Identify a few of these discourses and explain" rel="nofollow">in how you understood them as their own discourse. That is, what specifically signalled to you that this group of people was a discourse unto itself? • Wilcha seems to undergo some ethical dilemmas throughout the film related to his professional ethos and the ethos of Columbia House. What are some of these dilemmas, and how does Wilcha negotiate them? • Wilcha's team eventually gets to write their own catalogue. What are some of the rhetorical prin" rel="nofollow">inciples they employ in" rel="nofollow">in their catalogue?