final evaluation

I learned in this English 15 class that while I excel at organizing my papers sometimes my grammatical skills and sentence structure skills are weak.  I have improved on this by identifying where I make run on sentences and have worked on fixing my grammatical errors through editing. In my memoirs paper when I was editing it for the revision paper I had a much easier time identifying run on sentences and correcting them.   I have learned that while I do not necessarily appreciate all forms of art I can at least respect others opinions when it comes to different types of art.  In my opinion art is constantly evolving and that which becomes popular is usually the best form of art.  I think this from the premise that art is supposed to entertain people and the most popular form will be the form that best entertains people.  I understand that others have different ideas of what constitutes art or “good” art.  Some think that the best form of art is what form they like best or what famous people like best.  This is completely a valid opinion but not one that I share.  I have learned that respecting and trying to understand other people’s opinions is a healthy and productive thing to do.  About myself, I have found that my opinions sometimes differ from that of the rest of the class, which is fine but maybe I should try to be more accommodating of other ideas.  For example on the topic of drinking at Penn State my opinion differed from that of my classmates.  I felt like it detracted from the reputation of the school as a whole while many of my classmates thought it was part of the culture and a positive thing for the university.  I feel that this discrepancy has lots of different factors accounting for it.  While I might be upset because I feel like others actions reflect negatively upon me others have the rights to their own opinion and because we live in a free country they should be allowed to act in this way.  In terms of progress I have made in this class I think that my understanding of writing has developed by a huge factor and I will be a better student because of it.  I also think that my knowledge of different forms of art has grown and I will be more culturally knowledgeable because of it. 

I have completed the SRTE’s.

http://luketry.blogspot.com/2012/03/art-what-is-it.html?showComment=1335731468502#c2447780182833887314

http://voiceoflaurenrhoden.blogspot.com/2012/03/so-what-we-like-to-party.html#comment-form

http://colebeauchat.blogspot.com/2012/02/beginning.html?showComment=1335731579195#c1958552025364280498