Assingment!!! Composition class Mondays- Tuesdays

Hey my dear composition class!

We should start taking advantage of our blog due to the difficulties we've been going through; fortunately, composition class can easily be worked through this media. Well, first thing to do is to check the original abstract of the article "Complimenting: a matter of cultural constraints" and compare it to yours. As this first abstract was for rehearsal now you have to make the copies of the article "Treating ESL Writing Errors: Balancing Form and Content" by Maria Cristina Giraldo and Ronald Alan Perry and write the abstract for the article and a summary of it. (2 pages) Remember to check again the presentation on quoting and paraphrasing if needed.

God bless you!!!

ABSTRACT "Complimenting: a matter of cultural constraints"

The objective of this study is to contrast the different compliments given in the United States and Colombia, so as to analyze the differences and similarities of these types of speech acts in both cultures. The Study is focused on the kind of compliment known as the piropo with its conception and definition by the native speaker, the context and the circumstances in which the piropo is given, and to what extent gender plays and important role when grasping or producing these utterances
All this with the main purpose of underscoring and validating cultural information within the classroom, as a way of avoiding incorrect cross-cultural inferences, through the use of cross-cultural comparison in relation to the pragmatic constraints of a foreign language; based on this, students of English as a foreign language will have the opportunity of developing a more critical understanding of cross-cultural differences and similarities of the two languages by making emphasis on the piropo as one specific mark of the Latin American culture and which is not found in the foreign one.