680+ fill-in templates, decision trees, and checklists across 13 focused workbooks — designed to satisfy dissertation committees, journal peer reviewers, and grant study sections.
Five short kits, each paired with a workbook: size a study, clean a dataset, run a scoping review, sharpen an abstract or prepare for the viva. Worksheets plus a spreadsheet, downloaded instantly.
With The Research Data Collection & Management Workbook
The workbook sets up how data is gathered and stored. The kit picks up the moment the raw file exists.
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With The Statistical Test Selection Workbook
The workbook helps you choose the test. The kit sizes the study for the test you chose.
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With The Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis Protocol Workbook
The workbook covers systematic reviews and meta-analysis in depth. The kit is the lighter route when you need to chart what exists rather than pool results.
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With The Academic Writing & Scholarly Style Workbook
Use the workbook while drafting the paper; use the kit at the end, for the title, abstract and keywords.
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With The Dissertation & Thesis Workbook
Reach for it once the thesis is submitted and the examination date is set.
$15See the kit →Choose the workbook that targets your exact research phase — from project planning and data collection through analysis, writing, and publication.
35+ Research Tools, Templates & Checklists for Graduate Students — From Proposal to Defense
Stop staring at a blank page. This structural umbrella manages your end-to-end timeline, keeping you focused on one problem per page until the defense.
45 Templates for Thematic Analysis, Codebook Development, and Audit Trails
For researchers staring at 400 pages of transcripts wondering where to begin. Turn chaos into structured codebooks and verifiable themes.
48 Templates for Qualitative Interview Design, Focus Groups, and Dissertation-Ready Data
Master the art of qualitative data collection. Design protocols, recruit participants, and capture data that leads to rich analysis.
58 Templates for Mixed Methods Design, Integration, and Dissertation-Ready Joint Displays
Navigate the complexity of combining survey and qualitative data. Build structurally sound, fully integrated mixed-methods research designs.
58 Practical Decision Trees, Assumption Checklists, and Output Interpretation Templates for SPSS, JASP, and R
Stop guessing which statistical test to use. From research question to publication-ready APA results paragraph — one decision tree at a time.
60 PRISMA-Compliant Templates for Question Formulation, Search Documentation, Critical Appraisal, Data Extraction, Meta-Analysis, and GRADE Assessment
From raw idea to PROSPERO-registerable protocol. The step-by-step planning tools that Cochrane and PRISMA don't provide.
50 Practical Templates, Checklists, and Standard Operating Procedures for Flawless Research Data Collection
The costliest mistakes happen before a single data point is recorded. Build your operational infrastructure from Go/No-Go checklist to dataset lock.
50 Sentence-Level Exercises, Paragraph Frameworks, and Section Templates for Clear, Publication-Ready Prose
Your supervisor said "your writing needs work" but never showed you what to fix. Practice the exact skills that journal editors actually evaluate.
56 Practical Templates, Budget Calculators, and Reviewer Score Sheets for Successful Grant Applications
Your application isn't failing because your research is weak. It's failing because no one gave you the templates and budget calculators you needed before you started writing.
57 Templates for Turning a Vague Interest into a Researchable, Gap-Anchored Study
You have a topic you care about. You do not yet have a study. One decision per page, from a vague interest to a design that holds together.
64 G*Power Walk-Throughs, Effect Sizes, and the Sample-Size Justification Paragraph Your Committee Demands
"How many participants do I need?" A sample size is not a guess. Derive it from four linked parameters, inflate it for attrition, and write the paragraph that defends it.
53 Anticipated-Question Banks and Defense-Slide Templates for the Doctoral Oral Exam
The examiners' questions are more predictable than they feel. Build the question bank, rehearse the answers out loud, and walk in prepared rather than hopeful.
55 Milestone Maps, Gantt Templates, and Weekly Sprint Trackers to Finish On Time
A dissertation slips one quiet week at a time. Map the milestones, run the week as a sprint, and see a slip while you can still absorb it.
The core philosophy of the Research Made Practical Series is simple: you already own methodology textbooks that explain the theory. What you need is the structured practice.
Every template addresses exactly one decision or task to eliminate analytic cognitive overload.
These are not textbooks. They are structured lab manuals translating abstract research principles into actionable templates.
Templates are strictly designed to generate the outputs that satisfy dissertation committees, ethics boards, and journal peer-reviewers.
Rafiq Muhammad, MD, MIHMEP, Ph.D.
Dr. Rafiq Muhammad brings decades of rigorous academic oversight and methodological expertise to his writing. Having navigated the profound complexities of extensive qualitative data across multiple advanced degrees, Dr. Muhammad recognized a critical gap in academic training: students understand the theory, but lack the structural tools to execute it.
The Research Made Practical Series was birthed from the need to provide researchers with practical, committee-ready templates that bridge the frightening gap between dense methodology texts and raw, unanalyzed data.
View All PublicationsA single-page map of the whole research journey, with a 60-second "where am I stuck?" guide that names your exact next step — and points you to the workbook that gets you moving again.
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