This course aims to teach the students how scientific questions will be developed through the research proposal and the scientific reporting of findings in article style. The course includes both lecture and laboratory work, it is designed to enhance research-based learning opportunities and develop the ability of graduate students to investigate and interpret the chemical literature. The students will learn the fundamental of qualitative and quantitative research designs. The course will focus on the concrete issues of conducting research: research questions and hypotheses, selecting a topic, sampling, measuring methods, parametric and non-parametric statistics using SPSS software. Moreover, explaining type of articles and preparing thesis oriented proposal. This course will improve the students? skills of scientific thinking, scientific foundation of research, reading of articles, and analyzing data using variety of of tasks (i.e., exams, paper critique, review paper, and search using library data base).