1. Academic audiences
K. Turner

2. Who do we consider “Academic”?
What makes a person an “academic”?
They are generally accomplished in their specific field (i.e. have obtained higher education degrees).
They generally work within a university (e.g. professors, researchers, administrator, etc.)

3. Here’s a Famous Academic
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist
University of Maryland
You may have seen him on The Colbert Report or Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

4. ACADEMICS AT UTK Jeffrey M. Ringer
PhD, University of New Hampshire, MA, University of Vermont, BA, Lee University
Interests center broadly on the intersections of rhetoric and religion
Books
Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse: The Religious Creativity of Evangelical Student Writers. Studies in Rhetoric and Communication. New York: Routledge, 2016. 
Mapping Christian Rhetorics: Connecting Conversations, Charting New Territories. Studies in Rhetoric and Communication. New York: Routledge, Co-edited with Michael-John DePalma. (Winner of the Religious Communication Association’s Book of the Year award for 2015).
Articles/Chapters
"Working With(in) the Logic of the Jeremiad: Responding to the Writing of Evangelical Christian Students.” College Composition and Communication. Forthcoming, 2017.
Adaptive Remediation and the Facilitation of Transfer in Multiliteracy Center Contexts.” Computers and Composition. Published online, April Forthcoming in print, fall With Kara Poe Alexander and Michael-John DePalma."

5. Academics at UTK Michelle D. Commander M.S., Florida State University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California
Focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century African American literature, cultural studies, diasporic literatures, and Black social movements.
Articles
“Ghana at Fifty: Moving toward Kwame Nkrumah’s Pan- African Dream.” American Quarterly59.2 (2007):
“Language Matters: Hurricane Katrina and Media Responsibility.” Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities. Ed. John Brown Childs. Santa Cruz, CA: New Pacific Press, (with co-author, Wendy Cheng).
Reviews and Entries
“Mamie Elizabeth Garvin Fields.” The African American National Biography. Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Review of Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture, by Martha Jane Nadell. Journal of Popular Culture 38.6 (2005):

6. How do we write for Academics?
What should academic writing look like?
In English:
An essay is a piece of argumentative writing about one topic, usually based on your reading.
The purpose is for you to present ideas you have learned in your own way, using your own argument.
The emphasis should be on working with other people's ideas, rather than reproducing their words.
Your own voice should show clearly.
The ideas and people that you refer SHOULD be cited.