What is an academic text?

An academic text for me is a text where an author tries to convince a specific audience about his own thoughts and believes through the usage of different rhetorical tools. Those tools like exposition, explanation, examples, narration, etc., are supported by hypothesis, authorities’ arguments, personal experiences or observable facts that aim to the approval or disapproval of an idea. The information organized through the different tools is developed in a structural and linked way in order to arrive into an explicit or implicit conclusion.