New insights I have developed about the genre include being able to communicate effectively without appearing to repeat yourself and knowing that there is a major difference between speaking to small groups, large groups, and writing a paper in general. Personal functions that this serves is gaining a deeper insight to my own views, while public functions can be addressing larger issues to a major group. My writing process when I composed my personal narrative was actually very similar to my writing process with other genres. However, I spent much more time in the revising stage of this genre to make it much more solid as I occasionally have an issue with maintaining concrete ideas and not shifting into abstract nonsense. Accounting for