1. Non-academic text is based on personal opinions and feeling. 2. Academic texts are written for a lay audience or the mass public. 3. Academic texts can use first person point-of-view and include one's emotional attachment 4. The tone used in academic writing is usually formal, meaning that it should not sound conv casual. 5. Academic writing is based on research and not on the writer's own opinion about a given 6. Scholarly essays, research papers, dissertations, etc. are some examples of non-academic 7. The features of Academic language are informal, objective, precise, and impersonal. 8. Both academic and non-academic texts employ the use of informal language. 9. Academic language is impersonal in that you generally don't refer to yourself as the perf 10. The main aim of academic writing is to inform the audience while providing non-biased backing up the writer's claims with solid evidence.
