An academic treatise masquerading as a tract (usually it's the other way round): at least it gives us something to think about.

Between hagiographies-inspirational histories-and academic treatises, lie relatively few accessible and responsible treatments.

A great number of psychologists have written academic treatises on how to instill respect for authority in those who have none.

The written material ranges from dense academic treatises to the most heartbreaking personal appeals to posterity.

I am talking about major academic treatises.

So he decides to write a treatise on it.

There the defendants had engaged the plaintiff to write a treatise for a periodical publication.

Back in 1936 he had written a treatise that envisaged a machine capable of doing complex calculations by turning them into elementary mechanical tasks.

He also was a lutenist and mentioned having written a treatise on music, though this was never published.

He wrote a treatise on martial arts, published in 1711.