How is academic writing different from non-academic writing? Give suitable examples of both.

 Academic writing is a formal and impersonal style of writing that is intended for a scholarly or academic audience while non academic writing is an informal and often subjective style of writing that aims the mass public. The difference between academic writing and non academic writing stems from various factors such as their audience, purpose, language, format, and tone. Academic writing aims academia while non academic writing aims the mass public. Moreover, the main purpose of academic writing is to inform the readers, with non-biased facts and solid evidence. However, the purpose of academic writing can be to inform, entertain, or persuade the audience. This is a major difference between academic writing and non academic writing.

Another difference between academic writing and non academic writing is their style. Academic writing is formal and impersonal while non academic writing is personal, impressionistic, emotional, or subjective in nature. We can consider this as the key difference between academic writing and non academic writing. Moreover, the former uses formal language while avoiding colloquialism and slang whereas the latter uses informal and casual language. Citations and sources is also a major difference between academic writing and non academic writing. Academic writing contains citations and references while non academic writing does not usually contain citations and references. Some examples of academic writing include research papers, dissertations, scholarly articles while newspaper and magazine articles, memoirs, letters, digital media, etc. are examples of non academic writing.

Below infographic on the difference between academic writing and non academic writing summarizes the differences comparatively.

Non-academic texts are writings that are informal and dedicated to a lay audience. They are emotional, personal and subjective without any kind of research involving. Therefore, anyone can write a non-academic text. Newspaper articles, e-mail messages, text messages, journal writing, and letters are some examples of non-academic text.

The key difference between academic text and non academic text is that academic text is intended for the scholarly and the research community in society while the non-academic text is intended for the general public in society. While the academic text is formal and factual, the non-academic text is informal and personal. In addition, academic texts always contain citations, whereas non-academic texts may or may not contain citations.

The below infographic lists the differences between academic text and non-academic text in tabular form for side by side comparison.

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