Metagenre is a way of understanding genre at a more advanced level. In “Ways of Knowing, Doing, and Writing in the Disciplines,” Michael Carter argues that “metagenres” represent a structure of similar ways of doing that point to similar ways of writing and knowing” (393). Carter’s four metagenres (or ways of doing) are (1) Problem Solving (defining a problem and creating a solution, such as in business, marketing and management plans, project reports or proposals, and technical and feasibility reports); (2) Empirical Inquiry (drawing conclusions based on investigation of empirical data as in laboratory or research reports, research proposals, scientific articles and presentations); (3) Research from Sources (data from sources intrinsic to a discipline such as History or English); and (4) Performance (knowing as doing, performance and its artifacts such as drawings, sculptures, paintings, films, news stories and editorials, websites, PowerPoint presentations, technical reports, and theatre and dance exhibitions). Thinking in terms of metagenres can be helpful in more advanced stages of disciplinary expertise because it helps us see and think interdisciplinarily, which is critical to the creation of new knowledge (Compare to GENRE and understand alongside DISCOURSE COMMUNITY.)