Simply put,
Academic Writing Skills are writing done for academic purposes. It is entering into a conversation with others, but the way this conversation is carried out differs from how everyday conversation unfolds. Yes, academic writing involves expressing your ideas, but those ideas need to be presented as a response to some other person or group, and they also need to be carefully elaborated, well-supported, logically sequenced, rigorously reasoned, and tightly stitched together.
