Annotated bibliographies and literature reviews are very different, but I think writing an annotated bibliography can help make writing a literature review much easier. The first time I wrote an annotated bibliography was in sixth grade for my national history day project. We had to hand write every citation in MLA format on a note card and write our annotations on the back side of the card. Fast forward twelve years later and that method is just tattooed into my brain. I write down a source or put it into a bibliography on the computer and I automatically want to summarize the article so I can remember it for later. It makes sense to make some notes right away that are connected to the actual citation sense that is the part I am going to keep forever for my literature review references section.
Even though I think annotated bibliographies are great now, I definitely hated them in middle school. In fact, I never appreciated taking notes or writing itself until much later in my educational career. Doing an annotated bibliography and a literature review might seem like more work than just doing the lit review, but for me it actually reduces the amount of work I do overall. Sixth grade Rhea was not aware of this and just thought it was a lot of writing. My plan for this bigger literature review is to annotate my sources in Zotero and then use those annotations to guide my thematic literature review. That way I won't be up until 1 am the night before it is due, scrambling through my sources like I did in sixth grade.
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