Researchers often experience difficulty as they attempt to prepare journal articles that describe their work. The purpose of this article is to provide researchers in the field of education with a series of suggestions as to how to clearly structure each section of a research manuscript that they intend to submit for publication in a scholarly journal. Suggestions related to the each of the four major sections of a research article--the introduction, method, results and discussion sections--are offered. Examples of how those suggestions have been applied in published research articles are presented.