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Rhetorical Essay 4
Rhetorical Essay 4
Melanie Juarez
Dr. Nelson
English 1301-119
03 November 2022
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.Halls, et al, wrote this article in the year 2017 about service dogs
on Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. The author Hall, et al, 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. Halls, et al, studies how effective service
dogs are and provides information to the readers that they could acknowledge. The argument is
how service dogs are important and effective. Hall, et al, succeeded in persuading readers by
Firstly, the authors use pathos by providing the emotion of a better life to sway the
readers by acknowledging the author cares. According to Halls, et al, ¨Quality of life can be
defined as an individual’s experienced standard of health, comfort, and happiness [1]¨ (2). 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, making the reader feel
the joy and helpfulness of a service dog. Another statement used by the Halls, et al, 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,¨ (2).
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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. It makes the reader get a feeling of security and
having someone to rely on. This statement also makes it seem as if the service dog was a body
Secondly, the author uses logos by providing many statistics and percentages of
participants to prove their point of service dogs being helpful. Halls, et al, provides a survey with
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),¨(Halls, et al, 3). The survey helps support the author's logical reasoning.
Halls, et al, uses these surveys to persuade the readers into agreeing with him, since response
rates on a survey are being shown. This strategy helps the author prove the point that service
dogs are needed and helpful. Halls, et al, provides the numbers in order to give the readers an
idea of how many people have service dogs and prove that the service dogs are helpful. The
Halls, et al, 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 …¨ (4). 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
Thirdly, the authors use ethos by providing research of service dogs and their owners they
personally did, and citations of cited work Hall, et al, reviewed. For example, according to Halls,
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et al, ¨In the first stage, we conducted a univariate Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOA), with total
Quality of Life Scores as the dependent variable, …,"(4). 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. The
research is used to make the reader feel that the author has knowledge and can gain the trust of
the reader. Furthermore, Hall, et al, includes ¨All testing procedures complied with the British
Psychological Society (BPS) Ethics Code of Conduct [23] and ethical approval was obtained …¨
(2). 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. This makes the author seem like a person who cares about following the codes and
conducts, and someone who cares about ethical procedures. Halls, et al, also provides
¨Participants gave written, fullyinformed consent to participate in the study and for their data to
be reported anonymously¨ (2). 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. Making the author look like a genuine person who
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. Hall, et al, gives 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 author's purpose was to inform readers of how helpful and how he recommends service
dogs. Hall, et al, also provides the right citations and grammar in order to persuade the readers
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that his idea is correct. It provided all the key points needed to make sure the reader has enough
evidence to evaluate and agree with the point of view of the author. This article is agreeable,
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
,https://web.s.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=14&sid=44ef7f89-e7b7-406
a-9ccd-17a634d0c8ab%40redis, accessed on 01 November, 2022