Talks and essays about research skills that every graduate student must read/watch

General (research) advice

• Dave Patterson's talk on How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia Pre-PhD and Post-PhD
• How to manage your advisor by Nick Feamster
• Richard Hamming's You and Your Research talk
• A blog post by Michael Nielsen on Principles of Effective Research
• Useful advice on writing a great research proposal by Simon Peyton Jones and Alan Bundy

Tips for writing a research paper

• Writing advice from Dave Patterson
• Top 10 tips for writing a paper by Jim Kurose
• Read The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. It is a classic manual on the principles of English language

Advice on giving a research talk

• An excellent talk by Jean-luc Doumont on creating effective slides
• How to Give a Great Research Talk by Simon Peyton Jones
• David Patterson's ten commandments: How to Give a Bad Talk

Tips for reading/reviewing a paper

• The three-pass method for reading research papers is described by Keshav in this paper How to Read a Paper
• Graham Cormode's paper on How NOT to Review a Paper
• Alan Jay Smith's article entitled The Task of the Referee