Academic articles are written by professionals in a given field. They are edited by the authors' peers and often take years to publish. ... Non-Academic articles are written for the mass public. They are published quickly and can be written by anyone.
Academic means when a student is focusing on his/her studies to be successful and non-academic means that a student isn't concentrating on the materials to pass so he/she will have to attend summer school.
Explanation:
They're both different from each other because they don't share the same definition & they're aren't related at all