W. Booth, G. Colomb, J. Williams, “The Craft of Research”. University of Chicago Press, 1995 (Excellent! Every researcher (or aspiring researcher should read this book).

David Lindsay, “Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words”. CSIRO editions, 2011. by David Lindsay (Author)

• Advice on Scientific Papers by Nature
• The Science of Scientific Writing, Gopen and Swan. (ótimo!).
• How to write a paper, by Mike Ashby (muito bom!).
• Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students, Penn State Univ.
• How to Give a Good Research Talk, Simon Peyton Jones.

• Scientific method, from Wikipedia.
• "Conjectures and Refutations", Karl Popper.
• "Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge", Karl Popper.
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - An Outline and Study Guide by Frank Pajares

• Science and pseudo-science
• On scientific progress
• Karl Popper.

• John Searle, "Realismo e Racionalidade: O que está em jogo?".
• Peter Medawar, Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

• Naomi Oreskes, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Kenneth Belitz "Verification, validation, and confirmation of numerical models in the earth sciences". Science, vol. 263(5147), 1994.
• Naomi Oreskes "Evaluation (not validation) of quantitative models", Environmental Health Perspectives, 1998.
• Naomi Oreskes "The Role of Quantitative Models in Science". Chapter from the book “Models in ecosystem science”, 2003.
• Roger Pielke Jr. "The Role of Models in Prediction for Decision". Chapter from the book “Prediction: Science, Decision Making, and the Future of Nature”.
• Myanna Lahsen, Seductive Simulations? Uncertainty Distribution Around Climate Models. Social Studies of Science 35(6):895–922, 2005.

• Computing Research Association, Evaluating Computer Scientists.
• R Levin and D. Redell, How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper - A must read!.
• WF Tichy, Should computer scientists experiment more?, Computer, 1998.

• GapMinder - Data and stats brilliantly presented.
• Visual Complexity - great visualisations.
• Data Pointed - Why data need not be boring.
• Information Aestetics - Visualising information creatively.
• Flowing Data - How to present your data nicely.

• The Elements of Style,William Strunk Jr. (a classic!).
• Guide to Punctuation, Larry Trask, University of Sussex.

• Manual para Elaboração, Formatação e Submissão de Teses, Dissertações e Outras Publicações do INPE