But an Annotated Bibliography is Pretty Much the Same as the Literature Review, Isn't It?
No. It really, really isn't. An annotated bibliography is an alphabetized list of all the sources you have read with a short summary given for each one. It might take a long time and a lot of work to do your annotated bibliography. You have to read all the sources, figure out what they say, and then summarize that in reasonable prose. But this does not take much critical thinking and it does not require you to do anything original, which is why you will get comments like 'needs development' or 'not a literature review' or 'no critical voice here' if you just convert your annotated bibliography into paragraph form and think you are done. In an annotated bibliography, you don't have to analyze what each source said and come to any sort of view about how the findings and conclusions from each source relate to each other and to your particular research question. Neither does an annotated bibliography require you to formulate and structure an argume...