The phrase "academic answer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a response or explanation that is scholarly, formal, or related to academic standards.
Example: "In order to receive full credit, your essay must include an academic answer to the prompt provided."
Alternatives: "scholarly response" or "formal answer".
Meanwhile, federal spending on higher education has been undercut by steadily inflating tuitions, in what increasingly looks like an academic answer to the housing bubble.
The academic answer is that Messiah is Handel at his most brilliant, a well-paced blend of aria and chorus that perfectly matches the arc of the Christian story, a liturgical calendar condensed into three hours.
"The academic answer to your question is something called central place theory," says Jeffrey Barg, the current urban planner at the Philadelphia Horticultural Society.
Coyne's book is a careful, detailed, academic answer to the real-world question surrounding U.S. reconstruction efforts: How is it possible that well-funded, expertly staffed and, at least rhetorically, well-intentioned humanitarian actions fail, often serially, as in Afghanistan?
Instead, Obama did better than expected, delivering crisper and less academic answers than he did in his earlier encounters against Hillary Clinton during the primary campaign.
He strives to provide practical advice to clients that they can go implement immediately rather than generate long-winded academic answers to basic legal questions.
The academics' answer: "Complex societies need a high EROI built on a large primary energy base".This issue is not much considered by mainstream economists, who are too busy focusing on monetary policy, the impact of fiscal austerity or the need for labour-market reforms.
No, the academics answered.
But sports is a topic in which any academic must answer to an army of statistics-savvy amateurs, and in this instance, I judged, the bloggers were correct.
If you're a university academic, the answer to those questions is that your employer would shrug their shoulders, say, "Oh dear, that's a shame," and then carry on paying you regardless.
The academic's answer is to try tethering it back to something concrete and actionable, with demonstrable outcomes: a wealth disparity of X leads to a longevity difference of Y.
