What's the difference between an Annotated Bibliography and a Literature Review?
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Annotated bibliographies and literature reviews are both comprehensive collections of relevant sources, but they have different purposes, structures, and components.
An annotated bibliography points a reader to an organized list of sources for additional reading, and provides a detailed paragraph of why that source is relevant and credible to the original topic. Sources are separated and arranged alphabetically so they are easy to locate.
A literature review provides an overview of a particular topic by examining the top literature in a field in relation to it. In a literature review, multiple sources are discussed in topical paragraphs and sources can be used more than once. A literature review also contains both an introduction and a conclusion, used to provide the overall background of the topic.