Resilience As Discourse

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Tentative Hypothesis: Birdie McGreavy
Throughout the article Resilience as Discourse, author Bridie McGreavy (2016) characterized the existing understanding of resilience, as well as took a turn in the conversation and constructed new avenues of thought.
Across McGreavy’s (2016) introduction she skillfully introduced the current state of knowledge regarding resilience by means of verbs such as “positioned”, in an aim of noting the bereft existence of comprehension. McGreavy’s (2016) identification of questions unanswered by the existing understanding of the subject allowed her to then create space and extend the conversation, through statements such as “to address these questions, I investigated”. Furthermore, McGreavy (2016), continued to

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