What is Academic Text

Academic texts are critical, objective and specialized texts that are written by
professionals or experts in a particular field. They are written in formal language and has
a formal style and tone. Since these are objective texts, they are based on facts. The
emotions and feelings of the authors are not delivered through them. Academic texts
are well-focused, concise, clear, accurate, and well structured. They are based on factual
information and evidence, free from repetition, exaggeration, rhetorical questions and
contractions and are always in the third person point of view.

Generally, academic texts debate or provide answers to a specific question in a field. The
main purpose of academic texts is to enhance the reader’s understanding of a specific
field.

The key difference between academic text and non academic text is that academic
text is intended for the scholarly and the research community in society, whereas non
academic text is intended for the general public in society.

We can divide all texts into two categories: academic and non academic. Academic texts
are for academia, and they are objective, formal, and factual. Non-academic texts, on the
other hand, are casual, informal and personal, and are for the general public.