'generous reference' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who speaks or writes positively about another person, for example, "My former boss gave me a generous reference that helped me get my new job".
I jumped into action, managed to corral two very generous references (thank you again, Luke and Erhardt), and got in.
References and handwriting do not matter much and I give generous credit even if the essay is written in a very bad hand and has no quotations.
Occasionally, Beaumont's style can be cloudily academic, with sentences about "the consolidation of urban capitalism and its attendant class formations" and a generous sprinkling of references to Foucault, Adorno, Benjamin and co, but for the most part it is sharp and precise in its appreciation of London's messy charms.
He was generous in his references to the Allies, spoke as the civil and military authority of France, and said to his countrymen: "From behind the cloud so heavy with our blood and our tears, the sun of our greatness is reappearing".
Changing Places is the most formally experimental of the three books – parts of it are written as play text, one section is entirely composed of newspaper clippings – but all three share a postmodern playfulness, a generous dusting of literary reference.
But he always has something interesting to say, and it is a brilliant example of his generous frame of cultural reference that he notes, in an essay on vaping, that the character Sam Slade in the British sci-fi comic 2000AD smoked "a robotic cigar called Stogie".
It paid homage to Russia's democratic program, referenced the "generous" Wilsonian doctrine on self-determination, and looked forward to a congress of "blissful, national and democratic states".
We acknowledge the Diabetes MILES--Australia Reference Group for their generous advice throughout the study and for their continued collaboration on the dissemination of findings.
