Term assignment

GANDHI CITATIONS – SUPPORT DOCUMENT

Issue: I made this "Support Document" because I have received questions in the past about how to

cite to the Gandhi material. For example, students will ask "There are page numbers all over the

place…which page numbers do I use in my citations?" or "There are two Gandhi PDF

documents…which one do we use?" It's confusing, I know. First, let me explain some quick

background information on Gandhi's Collected Works. Then, I will explain how you should handle

doing the citations in your Term Paper.

Background on Gandhi's Collected Works: Gandhi's Collected Works is a project where they

took everything Gandhi ever wrote (e.g., stuff he wrote to newspapers, in letters, in private notes, etc.)

and published them into separate volumes. When they were done, the full Collected Works spanned

dozens and dozens of volumes and was over 40,000+ pages long!

For our class, I have given you two "Class Readings" PDFs. These "Class Readings" contain excerpts

taken from the full Collected Works, organized by subject matter (satyagraha and swaraj). Separately,

I have also given you the "Full Text" PDF, which is an electronic copy of the entire Collected Works

book (all volumes).

Citations using the Collected Works "Class Readings" PDF: Strictly speaking, if you were trying to

get your term paper professionally published, you are supposed to cite to the particular volume each-

and-every-time in your citations. However, for the purposes of our class, if you use the "Class

Readings" PDF, you may use the following "shortcut."

On your Works Cited page, you should include a citation to the Collected Works, as follows:

 Gandhi, Mahatma. "The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi" (excerpts) blah blah blah the rest of the citation.

At the bottom of your Works Cited Page, include a short note similar to this one that explains how you

will handle in-text citations in your paper:

 All in-text citations to Gandhi's Collected Works will indicate whether the cited material came from the "Satyagraha readings" excerpt or "Swaraj readings" excerpt used in our class. All

page references will make use of the page numbers provided by Professor Ellery on those

excerpts.

The in-text citations located in the main body of your paper would then look something like this:

 Gandhi was a super nice guy. He would never harm anybody because doing so would violate ahimsa (Gandhi - Satyagraha 13).

Here, the "Gandhi - Satyagraha" portion of the in-text citation tells the reader you found that stuff

about ahimsa in the "Satyagraha readings" excerpt we used in class. The "13" refers to "Ellery 13"

page number found in the upper-right-hand corner of the "Satyagraha readings" PDF.

Citation using the Collected Works "Full Text" PDF: While doing your research, you may find a

neat Gandhi quote or meaningful phrase that you want to use in your paper BUT was not part of our

class readings. That's okay!!! E-mail me and I will help you find the quote/phrase in the "Full Text"

PDF and I will show you how to properly cite it in your paper using the volume numbers, etc.

Hope that helps!

Prof. Ellery