This article uses Zak Lancaster's 2016 discovery that academics do not actually write the way "They Say/I Say" says they do to reflect on relations between, on the one hand, facts about academic writing and, on the other, the pedagogical values that underlie and guide those facts--or, put another way, to reflect on how values we may…

Notes that Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is growing at a perceived time of crisis in education and perceived strengthening of the forces of globalization. Suggests WAC should tinker with its existing techniques to promote critical thinking in even the most basic exercises. Concludes that in doing so, it can help students develop into…

Presents a talk addressing "language issues"--issues of student writers who are not native speakers of English, who are struggling with standard English usage, and/or who are unfamiliar with the conventions of academic discourse. Offers an explanation of what writing-to-learn pedagogy should be and do. (SG)