Choose a topic. What is the concept your project is about? (Links to an external site.)  For example if you are going to develop an educational bundle with materials about prevention of VAP (Ventilator Associated Pneumonia), search for articles about VAP protocols and research.

The following are the steps to develop a Literature Review
1. Choose a topic. What is the concept your project is about? (Links to an external site.)  For example if you are going to develop an educational bundle with materials about prevention of VAP (Ventilator Associated Pneumonia), search for articles about VAP protocols and research.
2. Select the databases you will use to conduct your searches. (Links to an external site.) Use DSU Library > Article Databases.
4. Conduct your searches and find the literature. Keep track of your searches (Links to an external site.) and references. Use the APA Manual 6th edition after second printing to format the APA Literature Review, in text citations, and references.
5. Review the literature (Links to an external site.)> then Summarize the literature in your own words. Do not use first person to write the Literature Review.