Collection of skills (continuous update)
This blog post contains a lot resources from research reading, writing, and other skills which I collect from many sources.
How to read a research paper
Besides the paper I listed in the resource page. The following list is also very useful.
How he reads a research paper (Murat Demirbas)
From this link, you can find many useful articles: Advice on Research and Writing
Advice
Advice for graduate (Murat Demirbas)
Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student
This link is more for CS students: Advice for researchers and students (Tao Xie).