My thesis adviser insisted that I read this book and it turned out extremely helpful. Joseph Williams' "Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace" demystifies the process of writing clearly and provides exercises and ideas that help improve your writing no matter how well (or not) you write right now.
Focus of the book is the question of what makes a sentence easy or hard to read. Only a small part of the answer relates to grammatical correctness. The larger part of the book discusses ideas such as cohesion, coherence, and emphasis, how these can be assessed, and how sentences can be rewritten to communicate ideas clearly.
There are many editions of this book. At some point it was split up into three different books: "Style: (Ten) Lessons in Clarity and Grace", "Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace", and "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace". I have the fifth edition of the first one, which can be bought used on amazon.com or half.com. I'm not sure how the other two relate to this one.
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