It’s good if there’s no source that says exactly what you want to research! That opens the possibility of bringing together existing ideas in a new way. Researching doesn't just help you understand what is out there about your topic. By finding what exists about your topic you uncover the silences and the gaps in research. What hasn't been written yet?
The results of your research will pull together ideas and observations which have never before been combined. The end product is new knowledge! Whether the project you are doing involves summarizing or creating completely new scholarship, those ideas are uniquely yours. They add to the environment of information. We are constantly interacting with preexisting ideas to create new ones.
New knowledge can be as impactful as Einstein's theory of relativity or as mundane as your own opinions about that new brand of peanut butter at the grocery store. Newness can be understood as a reframed, recontextualized, or refreshed perspective. The creation of new knowledge happens all the time, but not all that new knowledge has impact.
Our individuality matters when creating new knowledge. Our inherent uniqueness is a product of our individual contexts, life experiences, family influence, and geography. Our relationship with information varies based on how it is delivered and where, when, and who receives it. This diversity of thought allows us to combine sources in a unique way and is key to identifying the new information that really matters.
As previously mentioned in "How information is produced," students contribute to the collection of information. The process of research is filled with information production: revised research questions, comments in the margins of a book, comments shared in discussions with your peers are all a part of research which result in new information generation. The final results of your project represent the information you have created along the way. Your insights reflect your own worldview, which is unique to you alone. Your research results build on the information around you, the information you research to find, and the worldview that provides your own philosophical foundation.