Keep your reference short by writing long

18Aug07

Is it a short reference or a long one, that you need? Nine times out of ten, It’s a short one. Many people waste time writing very long essays expecting to make a masterpiece. However, they miss it, that people reading the reference usually have to read tens or maybe hundreds of references a day.

Put yourself into that situation. Would you read long references? Well, I would only do it, if it was really good. Otherwise I would skim through it.

So, what is the advice? Write long references. You see, in order to be able to keep it long, you have to make it a really good one, and in order to make it. When writing a reference, if you don’t have enough experience, write it long for practice. If you want to be able to write a really good one, you must practice, and to practice, you need to write. So, in essence, write it as long as possible and just strech out the ideas you don’t like to make it short short. Then, once you get better at it, you’ll start noticing how you begin to keep your references longer and longer.

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