Weekly Journal Log 01: Academic & Non-academic Texts
This week we learned about Academic and Non-academic Texts. While it may have seemed obvious at first what should be considered academic and non-academic, there were so many more characteristics and factors to consider when identifying and differentiating these texts. From what I was able to absorb from our lessons, for a text to be considered an academic text, it has to be targeted at "academics" or in other words, intellectuals who are specialized or interested in the field or subject that said text is covering. They must also always use a formal language and tone of writing, following a specific and uniform format for the purpose of being used as a point of reference or study. Examples of this would be research papers, concept papers, thesis papers, etc. Non-academic texts on the other hand are texts that do not quite follow a specific format. Although a lot of them will share similar formats due to having similar purposes, such as cooking recipes and gossip ar