What's the difference between academic and non-academic?

We talked about what's the difference between academic and non-academic writing yesterday, and the list below are some major diversities we discussed about.

First, the academic writing has a specific purpose and fixed structer in itself, but the non-academic writing has not the limition. The academic writing usually plays an important role in a series of researchs or experimets. Because the result of the researchs or experiments represent some kind of evidences taht we have to understand or to follow then we can get the truth or good performance we want in some kind of jobs. And it's usually have to spend a lot of money and energy to do a reserch or an experiment, then will come up a academic results. On the other hand, the non-academic writing doesn't need it, everyone can do a non-academic writing anytime in anywhere.

Second, it's need a lot of citations in the academic writing, cause them represent the evidence of your writings or experiments. The citations can make your writing has more powerful influence and let more people to trust it or to follow it. Just like the policies of a government, they can make a country stronger and stronger if the government make good policies and excute them very well. It's usually the good policies need many scholars to endorse, then the policies will earn more people to comply with them.

Third, the academic writing usually use special terminology. It depends on what kind of research area's audiences will read it.