What an academic text is

An Academic text is a writing that contains something that we can learn, it could have a complex vocabulary or not because there are academic texts for children, so these texts have a friendly terminology.

I think an academic text must include something in which we can believe or take as true, that's why it is important that it has quotes from people to support the argument.

The organisation of these kind of texts generally is the introduction of the topic (hypothesis, thesis, question, etc), the position taken by the writter, some arguments to defend that position and finally the conclusion. Although an academic text is also when the author wants to inform about something and does not necessarily takes a position.