 Within any group, there are varied ways of communicating, whether it's your family, friends, or professionals in a field. Right now, let's find out how your discourse community communicates. For example, in this video, we'll be looking at two discourse communities, nursing and history. Of course, one of the best places to look is online. Does your discourse community use social media? Are there hashtags they use on Twitter or Facebook? What about message boards or even email lists? How do the professionals in your discourse community communicate informally with each other? Start Googling to find out. Try Googling things that combine your discourse community with the kinds of sites you'd like to find, like Facebook groups, blogs, or message boards. Here are a few examples from our two discourse communities that we found online. One example is the U.S. Public Health Services with Serves for Nurses. Another from Rasmussen College is the must-have Facebook pages for nurses. And finally, from the American Historical Association, we have the top tumblers pages for historians. You can also look for hashtags on Twitter to view informal professional conversations on this platform. Here, antidotes are marked with hashtags such as hashtag nurse life and hashtag Twitter historians. What professional organizations are active in your discourse community? And what kind of publications do they produce? For magazines and journals to press releases and memos. If you explore the websites of professional associations within your discourse community, look for formal writing in the research publications or news tabs on these sites. Let's dig a little deeper into nursing by exploring their formal writing. If my discourse community is pediatric nurses, I first need to do a search on pediatric nurses and professional associations. I see a bunch of results that come up. I'm going to click on the Society of Pediatric Nurses. Here I can see they have multiple tabs such as Education and Publication. If I click on this tab, I can see the different ways nurses communicate. From e-news to webinars to a formal journal titled The Journal of Pediatric Nursing. You'll notice this website does not have the actual articles from the Journal of Pediatric Nursing. Sometimes you might even be asked to pay to gain access to journals and articles. However, you should always check the library website to see if we own the items. You can simply go to our homepage and search for the journal title, Journal of Pediatric Nurses. The second result here is an online version of this journal that you can browse. If you need more help, just go to the library website and select Ask a Librarian or stop by the information desk.