@steveroyle This one is spot on: "Longer is not better. It is not impressive. It is not persuasive. If you need some space to make your point, take it. Just know that length alone isn’t impressive. More often than not, it means that the short and direct answer is weak and the authors are trying to avoid stating it plainly. Sometimes authors wage a war of attrition and try to wear reviewers down with long-winded, verbose, wordy, rambling, loquacious, prolix resp"