FarhadY

I have a rough CV, but it's going to be a few weeks before I perfect it/add in the final details, but I'd prefer to ask for the references now. The CV also contains a lot of irrelevant information, since I would prefer if they focused on the work I did with them. I thought providing a summary of my work with them would essentially be a highlight of the relevant parts of my CV without overwhelming them with unnecessary information.

Pretty much all the profs I'm asking for a letter from I've done a fair amount of research under. However, I haven't spoken to a couple of these profs for a few of months and considering how busy they are I wouldn't be surprised if they've mostly forgotten about the specifics of what I did. So I thought it might be a good idea to attach a document summarizing my work with them when I ask for a letter, and I found a couple of other posts here that suggested doing the same thing. For this document, I was wondering if it would be a better idea to give a detailed page or so long description of everything I did or 5-6 bullet points summarizing my main contributions. The obvious benefit of the former is that I get to remind them of the details of everything I did, but it comes at the risk of them not wanting to read so much and pretty much ignoring the document. For people who have done this in the past/planning on doing this now, what does your summary's format look like and how long/detailed is it?