Dogs have been known to be a man's best friend, but some dogs are more than just that

to others. Service dogs help people with disabilities in their daily life and provide the daily
comfort they need. Service dogs are provided by applying and providing information over the
disability that is in need of a service dog. The author uses pathos, logos, and ethos to persuade
the readers on how important services dogs are. Halls, et al, states how service dogs help and
are beneficial to people with medical needs.
Firstly, the authors use pathos by providing emotion to sway the readers. According to
Halls, et al, 2, ¨Quality of life can be defined as an individual’s experienced standard of health,
comfort, and happiness [1].¨ These sentences are provided in order to make the reader feel and
think that these statements are also provided for them. It states emotions and feelings a person
wants in life. Another statement used by the author is ¨Service dogs allow their owners to gain a
larger degree of freedom and enhance their ability to partake in everyday outings or tasks that
may otherwise have been a struggle, or impossible, alone.¨ Disable or medical ill people suffer
and cannot perform their every day task fully, so a service dog helps establish a stable life. This
statement helps readers feel how important and necessary service dogs are for people who
need them.
Secondly, the author uses logos by providing many statistics and percentages to prove
their point. The authors do surveys to provide accurate and recent evidence ¨ From these 96
responses 72 participants had been trained to work with, and currently lived with a service dog
(53% response rate); 24 participants had qualified …(89% response rate).¨ The survey helps
support the authors logical reasoning. The also provides tables with reported uses of service
dogs, ¨All values are reported in Table 2 (physical service dogs) and Table 3 (hearing service
dogs) for total group … .¨ The author provides us with tables in order to make his statement
reliable. The graphs are provided in pages 5 and 6 with the information given. These statements
make the reader know that what the author knows is what he is persuading in the article.. The
author provides this logic to provide how many people require,need, and have service dogs.
This also helps with his statement that service dogs are a need for people with medical issues.
Thirdly, the authors use ethos by providing research they personally did. For example,
¨In the first stage, we conducted a univariate Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOA), with total
Quality of Life Scores as the dependent variable, ... .The research they conducted tells the
readers that they can trust the author's statements. The authors provide us trusted resources
and tell us that they know what they are talking about, since they themselves did the research.
Furthemore, Hall, et al, 2, includes ¨All testing procedures complied with the British
Psychological Society (BPS) Ethics Code of Conduct [23] and ethical approval was obtained …
.¨ This makes the authors look more acknowledged on service dogs and the people who need
and/or have them. It provides that what the authors conducted was within the guideline they had
to follow. Halls, et al, pg 2, also provides ¨Participants gave written, fullyinformed consent to
participate in the study and for their data to be reported anonymously.¨ This informs readers that
the authors have a sense of respect towards the participants that they ask for the consent of
every individual. The authors show morals by doing this act to their participants.
In conclusion, the author uses all these rhetorical reasoning in order to demonstrate how
effective and necessary are service dogs to people who need them. The authors give valid
information over services dogs and the care they give to people with medical conditions.
Information over statistics and surveys was provided, emotion was persuaded throughout the
essay, and personal experience that is reliable was also provided making the author points
valid. The authors purpose was to inform readers of how helpful and how he recommends
service dogs. This article is agreeable, because of the statement and rhetorical reasoning it is
providing.
 Work cited

Hall, Sophie, et al, ¨A survey of the impact of owning a service dog on quality of life for
individuals with physical and hearing disability: a pilot study.¨, Health and Quality of Life
Outcomes (2017), DOI 10.1186/s12955-017-0640-x
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