Even if you are doing group work, your teacher has given you a pretty bland experiment, you weren’t given an intial experiment, or your you have even gone ahead with some crazy experiment, you need to do research.
However limited a situation you have been put in, you need to research as best you can what has been done in the past and justify from that what you are going to do because of that.
This is the scientific method, this is how people do their Masters, PhDs, become researchers. You don’t come up with something out of thin air. You are standing on the shoulders of giants.
This is why you don’t need to ask if it is a good question. You know it is because this is where the scientific community is, or where you can advance scientific knowledge…
Ecellent Precis on IA wrt FAQs