 The first step of your discourse community project is to choose a community to learn and write about. Basically, a discourse community is a group of people that communicates about a topic or subject area. For the purposes of English 1010, we'll be focusing on professional and academic discourse communities. This is a great opportunity to explore a major or career field that you might consider working in one day. If you are unsure what majors or careers interest you, there are a few different ways that you can discover discourse communities that you may want to join. First, here are some questions you can ask yourself to get started. What academic majors, disciplines, or departments are you interested in? Do you know what kinds of jobs people within those communities hold? If you need help answering these questions, you can go to usu.edu. Select the academics tab and select advising under the resources tab. When you get there, click on the tab explore majors and select major slash career exploration. Click on degree finder to explore possible majors. Under key words, you can type something that interests you to see what majors are associated with that interest. For instance, if I type in reading and press search, multiple majors pull up that I might be interested in, such as creative writing. Try searching a couple different interests that you have and seeing what academic communities are associated with them. If you go back to the previous page, exploratory advising, you can also click on what can I do with this major and explore multiple careers within a major that interest you. For instance, if I click on forestry, I can find career options for that major, possible employers, and information on those jobs. Maybe I could choose a community within the federal government, like National Park Service. After you explore different majors and careers, pick the community that interests you the most and get started on your assignment. If you have trouble finding your community, ask a librarian. Just go to the library homepage library.usu.edu and click on the ask page or stop by the information desk for help.