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There Be Dragons : Effects Of Unexplored Religion On Nurses ' Competence

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Rhetoric in scientific writing is most often associated with the use of logos. Readers of scientific articles want to see evidence and research to support the conclusions within the paper. In her article “There be dragons: effects of unexplored religion on nurses’ competence in spiritual care,” Barbara Pesut proves that strong emotional appeals are just as important in developing the ideas within scientific writing to create a persuasive argument. Pesut uses an appeal to intellect through diction, and deductive reasoning, as well as several strong appeals to emotion to create an effectively convincing argument; however, an account of her own experiences would have strengthened her argument further through ethos and pathos. First, Pesut uses the arrangement of her ideas to appeal to the audience’s intellect. The article is arranged through deductive reasoning from broad to more specific, as she first describes the religious cultural context and finishes by suggesting ways to improve individual spiritual care in practice. Pesut states that she will arrange her ideas this way in her article: “I will begin by discussing the context that has created barriers to nursing theorizing about religious care. I will then suggest that this neglect of religious theory has produced a spirituality theory-religious theory gap (…) I will then conclude with three recommendations for integrating theory about religious care into nursing education which complements the teaching of

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