Definition

What I think an academic text is

Defining an academic text is not an easy task since we do not have discuss it in class yet, but in my opinion, an academic text is any kind of written production which purpose is to transmit knowledge to an specific audience. Since it is classified inside a scientific frame, academics texts are well structured passages or articles containing literary, historical and cultural references. When talking about an essay, for example, those references can be used as arguments to persuade a person. But not only essay can be classified as academic texts; poems, diaries, pamphlets and of course books can be taken as academic texts since they transmit knowledge in the case of books, a message in the case of pamphlets and feelings in the case of poems.