When we talk about academic writing, as usually refer to papers, books, chapters and dissertations. However, there’s a lot more to academic writing than just these four. Even if these are the most high stakes quartet going, there’s still more. A lot more.

This post is simply a list of the most common kinds of writing types that you will come across which all count as academic writing.

Caveats. This is not an exhaustive list. Texts which appear in one group below may equally work in another. Texts are not simply words on a page, but are variously multimodal, digital and hard copy. Some texts serve more than one purpose.

So with that in mind, here goes.

Texts that report academic work written primarily for other academics – and wehich m ay be audited: