If you want to do good research, the following can HELP!
You and Your Research
Dr. Richard W. Hamming
http://www2.isikun.edu.tr/personel/onurkaya/hamming.htm
How to do good research, get it published in SIGKDD and get it cited!
Dr. Eamonn Keogh
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/Keogh_SIGKDD09_tutorial.pdf
Writing Papers
Writing a technical paper
Dr. Michael Ernst
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/advice/write-technical-paper.html
The Elements of Style
Strunk, W., Jr. and White, E.B.
https://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/StrunkWhite.pdf