Creating an Inquiry

I realise as I start finding a focus for my inquiry that its important to research a topic that holds interest and sparks questions, making me keen to find more information and expand on what I already know. I have had several thoughts already around what topic of discussion I want to develop and am finding it useful to create mind maps around these ideas. This way it shows me which ideas have potential to be expanded upon and gives me areas of thoughts that link to a common factor.

I have also realised that the knowledge I hold is predominantly from experiences I have been through within my practise. Therefore module two is giving me the opportunity to explore findings from other individuals and scholars that have researched my ideas. Putting the two together will allow me to create deeper questions in which I can explore.

Whilst reading through the handbook, I realised I am unsure in what writing a 'Literature Review' actually was asking from me. After having done some research into how to write one, I am more familiar with the term and it is making the idea of starting on it seem a little lighter.
For those fellow module two starters, I found a useful quote that simplified the idea of a literature review, spoken by Dr John Classen, Biological & Agricultural Engineering at North Carolina State University...

'Existing literature is the story so far. You have to know where you are before you can go forward'.