Why I argue “Why I write” by George Orwell is an academic text

“Why I write” by George Orwell is an academic text because it develops an academic subject and because it satisfies the conditions to be a text of this type. The first condition to be an academic text is to analyze something and if you read in detail, the writer wants in this text to analyze motives to write. However, to develop this analysis, the writer uses two components very important: arguments to explain the four main motives that lead a person to write and statements related with his experience to support his arguments.
Secondly, to be academic, the text should have a structure. Somebody can think this text doesn’t have a structure but it has an argumentative essay structure. It is divided in: introduction, point of view or arguments, examples and a conclusion. In an argumentative essay isn’t necessary to present an opinion different to the writer, while in a contrast essay it is necessary.
Third, an academic text is intended for a particular audience. This text is intended for a particular group: people who are interested in writing (students, writers, teachers, man or woman of letters). It isn’t intended to engineers or architects.
Finally, people say this text is subjective and for this reason it isn’t an academic text. It happens is Orwell uses his literary stile to talk about a specific subject: writing. However, thus his brilliant career as men of letters, he also expresses his feeling, his anecdotes, and his fears. Also I think the reasons to write are personals and for this, this text can’t have the objectivity of a text about technology or statistics. It would be a positivist point of view. In spite of this, Orwell’s arguments about four motives to write can become widespread and some of these motives can identify in the work of all writers.