Statement of Adaptation
John Huss
Getting Active with Your Action Research copyright 2023 was adapted by John Huss and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. This version was adapted from J. Spencer Clark, Suzanne Porath, Julie Thiele, Morgan M. Jobe’s textbook Action Research licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License; and University Libraries, the Ohio State University’s textbook Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
No substantial new wordage was added to either of the original texts. New images were added as follows to Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research:
New image was added to Influence of a Research Question
New image was added to Quantitative or Qualitative
New image was added to Publication Formats and the Information Lifecycle
New image was added to People as Sources
All images provided through CC BY-SA 2.0 license
The majority of changes from original text Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research involved omitting whole chapters or chunks of information within chapters, including The Ohio State University -specific links and references, and embedded videos /links to external sources within chapters
Omitted chapters or parts of chapters were: (Chapter numbers refer to original text)
Chapter 2 Types of Sources
News as a Source, Data as Sources
Chapter 3 Sources and Information Needs (all)
Chapter 5 Search Tools (all)
Chapter 6 Evaluating Sources
Evaluating for Credibility
Chapter 8 How to Cite Sources
Citation and Citation Styles, Citation Software
Chapter 9 Making an Argument (all)
Chapter 10 Writing Tips
Helping Others Follow, Synthesis of Your Own Ideas
Chapter 11 Copyright Basics
What Copyright Covers, Rights Granted by Copyright, Respecting Copyright, Exceptions to Copyright, Creative Commons-An Open Option
Chapter 12 Fair Use
What is Fair Use, The Four Factors, Evaluating Your Case for Fair Use
Chapter 13 Roles of Research Sources (all)
