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The study focuses on the use of mind mapping strategy to improve students ' ability in writing procedure text . The purposes of this study were to give description about doe's mind mapping strategy method could be applied in teaching learning writing procedure text . In order to reach the goals of this study , the research designed an action research which consists of three meetings , and it was done through sequence of cycles . The students were given some treatments and writing tests in order to obtain a description about students ' ability in writing procedure text . This study was held SMPTK Iman Putun on 12-14 Decemcer , 2022. Class IX in academic year of 2022/2023 was chosen because of recommendation from English teacher about unsatisfying result of the students ' writing aspects . Based on the English teacher's statement , the students ' achievement in reading , speaking and listening aspects of the procedure text as material at first semester was good enough . However , students ' still needed a new method or teaching learning strategy to maximize students achievement in producing procedure text . There were fifty students in this class and three kinds of writing test in this research , as pre - test , treatment and post - test . This study uses a Quasi - Experimental design . This design consists of a pre - test , treatment , and post - test . The treatment of this research was one meeting . The mean score of students in the Experimental class in the pre - test was 53,92 and 59,36 for the control class . The mean score in the post - test for the experimental class was 68,16 and 57,84 for the control class , results of the pre - test t - test were 1.95 and 3.05 in the post - test . Post - test results are greater than the pre - test ( 3.05 1,95 ) . Based on the results of this study , it can be concluded that the use of mind mapping strategy has a positive effect on learning to improve students ' abilities in writing procedural texts for grade nine students of SMPTK Iman Putun.