Books (most of them are available on the reference shelf of the ETH Main Library)
Joseph M Williams, “Style”, 1990 (Highly recommended)
Diana Ridley, “The Literature Review”, 2008
Rowena Murray “Writing for Academic Journals”, 2004
Cargill and O'Connor, “Writing Scientific Research Articles: Strategy and Steps”, 2009
Scott Montgomery, “The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science”, 2002
Michael Alley, “The Craft of Scientific Writing”, 1996
Victoria McMillan, “Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences”, 2001
Accessing scientific literature
There are 3 common ways to obtain a full-length scientific article:
Directly from the website of the journal. This works for open-access journals and journals to which ETH subscribes. For the latter, you need to access from an ETH IP address (at ETH or through VPN).
For typically older articles, from the main Library (you can request a photocopy on NEBIS).
For articles neither online nor at the ETH library (no subscription), you can send a copy request to the ETH Library (Request Form). They will get it for you through partner libraries or by buying the article directly from the publisher.