Many research studies have also been carried out on variables and factors influencing other areas. For instance, Carlo Magno (2008) did a remarkable research on factors influencing writing. The purpose of this study was to examine further the role of cognitive and affective factors in writing ability. The variables such as reading strategy, amount of writing, metacognition, metamemory (cognitive factors), and apprehension (affective factor) were used as predictors of English written proficiency among the pre-university students. The results indicated that as individuals use reading strategies such as understanding the purpose of the reading material, activating relevant background knowledge, focusing attention to main ideas, evaluation, monitoring and making inferences, the more likely they can make better writing compositions. The reading strategies enable an individual to acquire the necessary framework in building one’s vocabulary, comprehension, spelling, semantics and syntax in language development. These prior skills enable an individual to make better writing