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

General (research) advice

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

Tips for reading/reviewing a paper

• The three-pass method for reading research papers is described by S. Keshav (my PhD advisor) 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

Tips for writing a research paper

• Writing advice from Dave Patterson
• Top 10 tips for writing a paper by Jim Kurose
• The Elements of Style, a reference book by Strunk and White

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