Why I write: academic text?

First of all I would like to say, as this is the chance to talk for myself, that I am not totally sure about whether the text why I write is an academic text or not, but as I have to defend a position, I will defend the one that the text is closer to be, i.e., I consider the text to be an academic one.

Well, I assume that position because of the next arguments: in spite of the text in the beginning is just telling us about the life of the author, I consider the text to have a very clear structure of an essay, as it has an introduction (after the little biography given), a development where you can see the arguments that the author give and that led him to become a writer with a political bias (the political and even military events that took place in his age---context), and of course a conclusion where he joins his ideas to say what written a book is for himself.

Other reasons are that there are specific vocabulary related in some way with the process of writing for example: vers d’occasion, comic, poems, literary, prose, rhythm, typography, width of margins, descriptive books, magazine article, sentences, etc. the author also makes citations both for his writings (the little poem), as for other’s authors (paradise lost).

Julian R. Sepulveda