This document provides guidance on writing a literature review, including key skills, structure, organization, referencing authors, tense usage, conciseness, discussing limitations and novelty, and assessing quality. The main points are: 1) A literature review should provide the right amount of background on prior work, systematically discuss achievements and limitations of other studies, and relate new research to prior findings. 2) The review should be structured to discuss seminal works, progress made, and the most relevant recent works in a logical order that reveals gaps the current work will address. 3) When referencing authors, use their name and date, or name, date and page number to focus on ideas rather than individuals. Use