Books:

• The Elements of Style. William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1979. This is an amazing little book that you can read in a few hours. Your writing style will never be the same afterwards. This $8 book is the best investment you can ever make.
• Bugs in Writing. Lyn Dupre', (2nd ed.) This is a great book that expands on Strunk&White. It has more examples, and was written by an author who edited numerous technical publications, many of which were in computer science.
• The Chicago Manual of Style, Univ. of Chicago Press. This is the bible for american academic style. It's long and heavy, but has everything you ever want to know about style. When it doubt, or if you get confoicting stlistica advise, following The Chicago Manual of Style is your best choice.
• A Handbok for Scholars by Mary Claire van Leunen; Alfred Knopf, Publisher. This is another usefull book written for publishing (computer) scientists.

Articles:

• The Science of Scientific Writing, George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan, In American Scientist, Vol. 78, No. 6 (Nov-Dec, 1990), pp. 550-558. This is a useful article that teaches scientists how to write single sentences and paragraphs.

Conference Guidelines:

• Roy Levin and David D. Redell, An evaluation of the ninth SOSP submissions -or- How (and how not) to write a good systems paper ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 17(3):35-40 (July, 1983).
• Alan Snyder, How to get your paper accepted at OOPSLA OOPSLA '91 Proceedings, pp. 359-363.
• Ralph Johnson et al, How to get a paper accepted at OOPSLA Panel at OOPSLA'93, pp 429-436.
• What kinds of papers does USENIX publish?
• Alan Jay Smith, The Task of the Referee, IEEE Computer 23(4):65-71 (April 1990).