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The purpose of this study is to identify the effects of extensive reading with narrative text and expository text on the writing competence. The core difference between narrative and expository texts is their style. Narrative texts allow the author to be creative and tell a story in a way he likes, while expository texts follow some strict rules that he must abide. In addition, the aim of a narrative texts is to pull readers into emotional elements of the story and narrative texts include sensory details, a clearly defined mood, and strong underlying tone to help readers connect to emotional elements in the story. On the other hand, expository texts are fact-based and educational, and don't typically engage the reader's emotions. For this study, nine college students were divided into three groups; Narrative reading group, Expository reading group, Narrative & Expository reading group. And they were administered narrative texts and expository texts for 4 months respectively. Before students read the texts, they wrote essays with a specific title and then, after they read all the texts provided, they wrote other essays with a different title. With comparisons of the statistic data resulting from the official ETS writing evaluation, this study was conducted for the writing improvements for different types of reading. Results suggest that narrative and expository processing differ with respect to integration of text content with prior knowledge. In addition, findings indicated that students had more difficulty with expository text than with narrative text in terns of writing performance. And the students who used both narrative and expository texts got the best writing competence. This means that combined use of narrative text and expository text triggered much better writing performance in EFL writing.