Question

What evidence leads you to believe that the tone of the passage is academic?

Answer 1

Typically when the narrator uses information that you could probably find somewhere trustworthy, like a textbook and goes on to give specific information that you would need to know for a unit or group of tests. For example, if the passage says "Christopher Columbus didn't actually mean to find the Americas, I guess you could say it was a happy mistake." That would be academic.