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Rezky Fadhila H, 2313.134.The Effect of Using Graphic Organizer Strategy toward Students’ Writing Ability on Recount Text at the Second Grade of SMPN 3 Bukittinggi. A Thesis, State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi, (IAIN), 2018. This purpose of this research is to know the effect of using Graphic Organizer strategy toward student’s writing ability on recount text of students in the second grade at SMPN 3 Bukittinggi. There were some problems that were found by the researcher: the students did not master vocabulary and grammar, the students had low motivation in writing text, the students were difficult to develop their idea to be a good paragraph, and the strategy used by the teacher to teach writing was still conventional strategy. This research was a quasy experimental research. The total of population was 6 classes. The researcher used Purposive Sampling Technique in choosing the sample, they were experimental class ( VIII 3 ) and control class ( VIII 2). To collecting data, the researcher used writing test, meanwhile To analyze the data, the researcher used t-test formula and consulted the resullt into t-table wit level of significant α=0.05 The findings in this research showed that the result of the pre-test and post-test scores of the experiment class tobtained (7.01) was higher than the ttable (1.99) with degree of freedom (df) = 62. So, the null hypothesis H(o) was rejected and alternative hypothesis H(a) was accepted which means that there was significant effect of using Graphic Organizer strategy toward student’s writing ability on recount text. Then, the calculation of post-test of both classes is as follows, it was obtained that the t-obtained was (4.31) which was higher than the t-table (2.00) with degree of freedom (df) = 60. So, the alternative hypothesis H(a) was accepted which means that there is significant difference between using Graphic Organizer strategy and conventional strategy. It can be concluded that the entire hypothesis is accepted. It is proved that using Graphic Organizer strategy as a writing strategy can help the students in improving their ability in writing recount text.