great tips for your science writing

How to write consistently boring scientific literature
Kaj Sand-Jensen

Oikos Volume 116, Issue 5,
Article first published online: 26 NOV 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15674.x

This is a good follow up to the paper written by the 8-10 year olds in Biology Letters (an open access article) on bee behaviour:
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/12/18/rsbl.2010.1056