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- The problem in Carter’s view is about the disciplines in writing and the disjunction about the way people view them. Another controversy is about writing inside the disciplines and writing outside of them. He views writing inside the disciplines as “writing in the disciplines is founded on an integrative relationship between writing and knowing (Carter 386). Writing in the disciplines became a response to the thought that different disciplines are grouped by certain ways of writing and knowing. There is a way to know the distinction in Carter’s writing, he states “[it] is the difference between knowledge and knowing” (Carter 387). In his view, it is all about how we view writing in or out of the disciplines.
- Carter’s concept of Genre is that it is a group of broader categories, “to see the lab report as one genre within a broader category of ways of knowing and doing in the disciplines” (Carter 391). He also goes on to state, “assessment plans, when looked at together, revealed several of these categories of procedural knowledge” (Carter 391).
- Carter’s concept of metagenres comes from genres. He states “each way of doing instantiated in written genres-I call these general ways of doing meta genres” (Carter 392). After seeing his concept, I see metagenres as something that cannot be obtained without a genre first.
- Carter views metadisciplines as “collections of disciplines that share an emphasis on certain metagenres and are constituted by the various genres within each metagenre” (Carter 403).
