Academic Texts

An academic text is first of all, a sharing of knowledge. Its main purpose being the sharing of information. Secondly, the knowledge being shared must be as the term says, academic. If the information and/or knowledge being shared is that which can be found in an educational facility, then it is academic. One should not consider an essay an academic text simply because it holds the titrle of "essay". I can easily write an essay on how wonderful The Rolling Stones' music is, but would you consider it an academic text? People have the habit of calling essays academic texts because they are used to writing them since their youth in school, and all the way until they reach the university. We must therefore keep in mind that there are certain characteristics of an academic text. And in order to identify a text as academic, we should observe and determine if it has academic attributes.