Video from Smart Student by Chelsea Seburn. Learn how to format an annotated bibliography and review certain parts of articles to determine which ones to read in-depth, and identify the three types of annotated bibliographies.(14m, 48 s)
This webpage from Excelsior Owl explains the purpose and content of a literature review. It also contains a short presentation on the basic steps to writing a literature review.
As noted in this resource from Purdue Online Writing Lab, the "lit review" is important in many subject disciplines. It is a document that collects the important sources on a topic and discusses those sources in relation to each other (synthesis).