As science and scholarship are often not clearly differentiated, so scientific writing is frequently not adecuately distinguished from the writing of essays or speeches. In the interest of candidates for the M.A. and the Ph.D. degrees some standards for scientific writing are set forth. These are clarity and the avoidance of distortion. A few observations are also made on how to attain readability, thought this quality is unimportant for science, while at the same time maintaining the necessary standards of scientific language.