To be honest, I was very confused if the text "Why I write By George Orwell" was or it was not an academic text (maybe I am still confused). At the beginning, I decided to be against mainly because of three reasons:
Fisrt at all, I thought about the purpose of an academic text which is "to make know something, to share an important knowledge of a specific field" something that "I did not find" in the text because the topic is not really important, it was just a mere personal anecdote, no contribution as writers. Then, I argued that kind of texts is supposed to have a technical language or at least language used in a very formal way, not in an informal one. Finally, it was not an academic text because it was very subjective and the author does not support his ideas doing intertextuality or something like that.
But now, I must say that I changed my mind....why? I am taking the course "creative writing" and as a final work we have to present an essay developed from a personal experience; according to the information that I found on internet that is an academic text, so, I reflected a little bit and I wondered what would be the difference between that essay and my future essay? there is not difference. Mine will have a topic that is relevant just for me, with an informal language, I mean, not using slang but without technical term and I am not going to need intertextuality at all because is "my experience". As a conclusion,"Why I write" is really an academic text, maybe the problem is we do not know how to identify the different kind of texts that for sure exist.
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