2.+Classification

For your literature review, complete the following analysis:
 * __Analysis 2: Classification using taxonomy of literature reviews__**
 * Publication 1:**


 * **Characteristic** || **Category** || **Comments** ||
 * Focus || Theories || Three theories framed the basis for the researcher's case study. She then uses the main theory related to the transactional model of reading to exemplify the practice of the content area teacher. ||
 * Goal || Identification of Central issues || The researcher clearly wants to expand the knowledge base concerning how struggling readers approach content area reading and how teachers interact with struggling readers. ||
 * Perspective || Espousal of position || Initially, we thought that the researcher was quite neutral but as we continued my reading she does put forth recommendations and assert her position on how teachers can assist struggling readers with content area reading tasks. ||
 * Coverage || Representative || Having already completed our citation quality portion of the assignment, we know the researcher incorporated a wide variety of high quality sources related to reading, content area reading, theory, etc. We did initially note though that her reference list was not exhaustive. In fact, she cited references in her text that she did not provide the detailed bibliography for in her reference page. For this reason, I believe her literature review is representative of the historical and current literature in this area but is not exhaustive. ||
 * Organization || Conceptual || The researcher combines prior theory and research in order to relate concepts integral to content area reading. ||
 * Audience || Practitioners and General Scholars || We believe this article is best suited for practicing content area teachers and literacy professionals. The researcher eludes to the fact that having practical knowledge of teaching and learning in the content area is helpful in understanding the transactions that take place between teacher and struggling reader. However, this case study could help to enlighten general scholars as well to the current issues taking place in middle school content area reading classrooms; which in turn could cause them to modify syllabi to incorporate more content area reading strategies, to better prepare future educators in this area. ||

Comments and Reflections: While using Cooper's Taxonomy of Literature Reviews, coming to consensus regarding the five components was a fairly easy task. One hardship we noted was that our notable dissertation did not follow the standard five chapter dissertation format. Having been told to just choose a portion to review (Chapter 2), we were aware that we did not necessarily have the complete picture, in regards to the entire literature review. At times, this caused us to make assumptions based on what we had read. The literature review continued in Chapter 3 and had we reviewed it in its entirety, some of our responses in this section, may have been different.