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Academy

In United States composition theory (see “composition,” this glossary) this term, widely used, refers to the more generalized abstract concept of that which is intellectual academic work, or institutes of higher education and all they stand for, the mental construction of the place where university work is done. This abstraction is physically represented by the concrete space that is the university, but is not limited to a strict equivalence to “university” as such.