Unlike an annotated bibliography that summarizes sources in a list, a literature review discusses the themes, trends, and theories in a prose format. Your job in writing a literature review is to evaluate and synthesize the literature in order to make connections among scholarly works and to find gaps in the literature that your research could address.
The Steps to a Lit Review page from the Williams Writing Center provides several effective strategies for writing the literature review:
Refer back to the examples in section 2 to observe how these scholars have organized and written their literature reviews.