I have to say that I found more variety in researchers rationals then I thought I would. I can also tell that I will find a lot of variety in research methods. I found at least two studies that use grounded theory and one of the articles reads more like a novel than a typical research paper. I was also surprised that research questions were not more clearly written. In a few articles I had to go searching for them. I found a lot of good articles from some top authors in Journal of Distance Education. I will have to review that journal more closely. I don't know if it is a top journal but Garrison, Rovai, and Anderson were all publishing in it (it fact they all kind of got into a debate about CoI).