A critical approach to “A Concise Introduction to Mixed Methods Research” with Rhetorical analysis

In this article I tried to investigate the rhetorical aspects of Creswell’s “A Concise Introduction to Mixed Methods Research” with a critic on Persian translation of the book. After introduction and problem statement and methodology, I tried to introduce all sections of the book, describe appearance of it and trace standpoint of the work among similar works and then, mention the main weaknesses of Persian translation of it including: machinist translation, editorial errors, pronunciation problems, errors in finding fitted equivalent terms, disruption in harmonious use of phrases, misspellings and so on. Then by using Spurr’s (1993) model of rhetoric analysis, I tried to extract sample sentences from important sections of the book that explicitly have rhetorical act and categorize them. This rhetorical aspect would be the point of departure for a methodological discussion about pre-assumptions of this structure for research.