Your literature review should be a summary of existing attempts to answer your research question or address similar question. It is a synthesis of existing literature that places your work in conversation with what others have written. Your literature review should:

Explain your research question clearly
Convince your reader that you’ve read and understand the scholarly research on your subject
Identify schools of thought or other ways of grouping the scholarly literature in order to explain common themes within previous research
Assess the strengths and weakness of the existing scholarly literature
Explain where your research fits into the literature
Include at least ten scholarly sources (that is, from peer reviewed journals or books published by academic publishers)
Be a minimum of 1,500 words (not including your works cited)