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Du, J (2012) Investigation of interpersonal cooperation in construction project teams: An agent-based modeling approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Michigan State University.
Garciacortes, A (2017) Knowledge transfer and application in integrated project delivery teams, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Michigan State University.
Getto, G (2011) Toward a rhetoric of infrastructure: Doing new media writing with communities, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Michigan State University.
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: skills; learning; heuristic
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- URL: https://www.proquest.com/docview/888043703
- Abstract:
In the following dissertation, I develop heuristics for collaboratively and sustainably contributing to community infrastructures through writing. Based on the findings of an observational study on how students enrolled in my first year composition and service-learning class created new media writing projects with community partners and were able to contribute to local infrastructures, I argue that students mobilized and invented different kinds of knowledge depending on what technologies, modes, and genres they had experience with and access to as part of the class. In order to do this, they formed a strong network of skills, ideas, and other resources with their community partners. Reflections on these findings, along with my experiences doing community media work in Lansing, Michigan, enable me to develop a rhetorical understanding of infrastructures as networks of activity and resources—like knowledge about modes and genres—that support writing. From this perspective, I ultimately argue that the most effective means of building and sustaining infrastructures is for writers to leverage their networks to create new types of resources that can then be used to do rhetorical work in the world.
Goodarzi, M (2021) A post-construction evaluation of long-term success in LEED-certified residential communities, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Michigan State University.
Hinkel, M P (2022) Three essays on labor market regulation in the American construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Michigan State University.
Lahouti, A (2017) Cue-based decision-making in construction work crews: An agent-based modeling approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Michigan State University.
Moore, H (2013) Exploring information generation and propagation from the point of installation on construction jobsites: An sna/abm hybrid approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Michigan State University.
Paullin, R J (1977) Construction management: Implications for intermediate school district boards of education and administrators in Michigan, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Michigan State University.
Peckham, G E (1971) The systems approach to school construction: the potential benefits, the necessary conditions, and the implications for Michigan schools, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Michigan State University.
Schafer, D W (2014) A conceptual framework for resilience engineering in construction safety, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Michigan State University.
Shafique, F (2020) Transformational leadership for sustainability in architecture engineering and construction project teams, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Michigan State University.
Sparkling, A E (2018) Collaborative project delivery practices, goal alignment, and performance in architecture, engineering, and construction project teams, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Michigan State University.