School work is highly personal in that it is your own words. What you say comes from your life, is written in your own voice. Academic is involved, because it is what you base your voice off of. Academic learning has taught you how to express yourself, and in that way it is a scaffolding for your personal voice and thinking when constructing a piece of writing. Your personal experience and knowledge will always influence what you write, but your education forms the ways in which you structure your writings.