WRITING

The differences between Academic and nonacademic writing

First of all, academic writing is focus on a specific field or a academic category. But nonacademic writing might be a general issue or someone's idea or someone's thinking. When we refer a article as a academic writing, it should have a unique structure and tone. At the beginning of a academic writing, there would be a research background and research object. Then, there would be a literature review to demonstrate other scholar's contribution and achievement about this topic. After that, the author may come out a new hypothesis or a new proposition. And then, the author will take a methodology to collect data or conduct some academic interview to act as a evidence to support his point and argument. The examining process should be objective and rigid. At the last, the article will lead to a new conclusion and application. Other researchers in the same field will realize the author's idea and research result quickly and precisely by this standard structure.

When we refer a article as a nonacademic writing, there would be no standard structure and rigid logic in it. It might be a free style and sometimes reflects the author's style and personality. Like a newspaper report or criticism, we can sometimes tell the author by the content structure or the vocabulary he uses in the article. Also, nonacademic writing will not focus on any specific field or topic. It might be a general issue or a life story. It might be a funny story or a heart touching story, but it would not become a theory in any specific academic field.

The tone of a academic writing is also quite different from that of the nonacademic writing. The tone of a academic writing is rigid, objective, and fixed. It would only talk on the facts and gain the result by the evidence it provides. The tone of a nonacademic writing is relax, humor, and free style. Since it might be someone's opinion or idea, so the tone of the writing would be more flexible and reflects the atmosphere that the author want to create in his article.

In conclusion, an academic writing is a rigid, logical, and well-structured article in a specific academic field. It also provide a good point and insight for the further research. A nonacademic writing is just a report or a free style writing. It only tell someone's opinion or idea, and it might not make much contribution to any further academic research. If we want to be a outstanding academic researcher or expert. We should be able to tell the differences between the two different type articles. Then we can write a right article in a right format and right tone.