Carter, Michael. “Ways of Knowing, Doing, and Writing in the Disciplines.“ CCC 58.3 (February 2007): 385-418.
Noting that teachers in the disciplines tend to regard writing as generalizable across all disciplines (385), Carter sets out to explore the relationship of writing to knowing. Carter delineates between knowledge and knowing: knowledge is “relatively static content,“ whereas knowing is a way of doing (387). Using genre theory, Carter explores the various ways of knowing in disciplines, coming up with metagenres (“a higher category, a genre of genres“ [393]) and metadisciplines, and concludes with a consideration of postdisciplinary inquiry. He writes this essay for Writing in the Disciplines professionals to help them conceive of ways to talk to faculty in the disciplines about “generic ways of doing and knowing that link their disciplines“ and then integrate these ideas into student writing (407).
