The difference between academic and non-academic issues

When talking about the difference between academic and non-academic issues, first, you may be thinking of 'truth'. Yes, that's right. First, I think the most important difference between them is whether it is true. If an academic article is published, it must be true and proved by lots of experiments and research. It must have the reason, evidence and result. However, a non-academic one doesn't need these things. It can be story, fiction, interview and so on. It is just a personal opinion that you donnot need to prove it. Nobody really cares about whether it is a truth while an academic one is just opposite.

Second, academic issues are specific to some professionals. Such as an electrical engineering article is fit for an engineer but not for ordinary people. While, non-academic articles may be direct to most of us to be understood easily. So I think the first difference is that the two kinds of articles are fit for two kinds of people:professionals and non-professionals.

Third, academic issues must have a standard style to be read. Such as character form, words space, citation and so on. There are so many rules to strict academic issues to be standard. On the contrary, non-academic ones are free and informal. For instance, a poem can be written as long or short as you can. And you needn't worry about the words style or other things. You can show your personality, interest and character. While, academic ones just look the same as others that you cannot tell who the author is.In addition, the tone of these two kinds of issues are so different. Academic ones must be rigid, logical and objective to claim the truth. However, non-academic ones can be personal, subjective and free just as your opinion. They can be humorous, sarcastic or ambiguous.

Fourth, if an academic issue is published, it may need a long time to do experiments and research and then get a conclusion or result. In this process, it may need teams, funds and other resources. Thus an academic issue needs lots of resources to be supported and supplied. However, non-academic ones can be stories, fictions, poems and they are just the personal stuff so they may not need so many resources as academic ones.

In conclusion, I think there four major differences between academic and non-academic articles.
These are, whether it is true, specific, standard and needs lots of resources.