WHY I WRITE?. A DIFFERENT KIND OF ACADEMIC TEXT.
The most common knowledge people have about academic texts are the essays, and the image of essays as the most frequent and better known example of academic text, but if we can imagine how complex is the art of writing we can also imagine that maybe in that complexity the academic text are more than assays. Even if I dont have a big knowledge about academic writing, I would say that this text wrote by George Orwell can be academic but presented in a different way not well known for me.
This text makes me think about the complexity of writing academic texts, because at least for me, it broke down the walls of academic writing I had and suggested me other ways of writing for the academy.
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ReplyDeleteCertantly Laura, it is an essay, I think we can all agree on that, but that doesn't make it academic.
ReplyDeletei think that my conclusion for this exausting discussion is that things don't have to be so black or white, but maybe it depends just on the way we pereive it. Maybe he wrote it in a very personal sense but some people that respect him take what he says as serious and academic states.
Let's just learn from the experience and move on.