Most projects involve an element of reading other people's research.
It is not expected that every word you write and every idea you express will be freshly minted by you for the sake of your project. What costs you marks is using someone else's work and pretending it is your own . For example, let us suppose that your project deals with the transition from the centralised Soviet economy to what has succeeded it. This society is ripe for change. It has long been yearning for it.