Audra’s

Reading Response #1

There are many differences between an academic and a writer, one such difference between them is that an academic is more of a critic while a writer is much more of an artist. The differences between them also are greatly based on how much either of them reads, what they read and how much time they spend writing. The academic is a reader who gets to decide the meaning behind what he is reading. The academic also works within the discourse that is already there. A write will produce an original work. The writer expresses his own ideas in his writing while an academic looks at what others have already said. One of the biggest differences between an academic and a writer is that the writer is a freethinker.