Title: Campus Response to a Student Gunman
Purpose Statement: The study presented in this article is a qualitative case analysis that describes ad interprets a campus response to a gun incident. (p. 576)
Excerpt from the first paragraph in the method section...We also limited our study to the reactions of groups on campus rather than expand it to include off-campus groups (for example, television ad newspaper coverage). This bounding of the study was consistent with an exploratory qualitative (research design)... We identified campus informants, using a semi structured protocol that consisted of five questions...We also gathered observational data, documents, and visual materials... (p. 578)