In many cases individuals read literature simply to leam about a topic for themselves. Reading literature and taking notes is sufficient for this purpose. In other cases, however, individuals want to summarize the information to share it with others.It you plan to share the information. then you will probably want to write a literature review that summarizes what you have. The nature of this review will differ depending on its purpose. A student preparing a literature review will differently for from teacher preparing a literature review report for his principal, who will write it differently from researcher writing the literature review section of her research article. Each of these individuals, however, will organize the literature into themes, summarize the major themes, include citations, and conclude the review by relating what they learned to the purpose for the review.