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ABSTRACT Juli Mardayanti, 2312.043. The Effect of Using TTW (Think, Talk, Write) Strategy Toward Students’ Writing Descriptive Text at the eight grade Students of MTsN Balingka 2016/2017 Academic Year”. A Thesis, State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Bukittinggi. The research was done because the researcher found several problems in the field. The first problem was the students of the eight grade were lack of ideas to write paragraph. Second, some of the students were difficult to identify the generic structure of descriptive text and the students were also afraid of making errors in write a paragraph. The aim of this research is to find out the effect of using TTW (Think, Talk, Write) Strategy toward student’s writing descriptive text. This research used quasi-experimental research by using quantitative approach. The population of this research was the eighth grade students at MTsN Balingka. The sample VIII.4 was treated as experimental class and taught by using TTW (Think, Talk, Write) Strategy and VIII.5 was treated as control class and taught by using conventional technique. To determine the sample, the researcher used purposive sampling technique. In order to analyze the data, the researcher used the normality by using Lilliefors test and the homogeneity test by using F test and the researcher used t-test formula to test the Hypothesis and consulted the result into t- table with level of significance α = 0,05. From the result and accounting the pre-test and post-test scores of the experiment class, it was found that the t-obtained (6.48) was higher than the t-table (1.645) with degree of freedom (df) = 62 and (α) = 0,05. So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted which means that there was significant effect of using TTW (Think, Talk, Write) strategy toward student’s writing descriptive text. Then, the calculation of post-test both classes : was experimental class and control class, it was obtained that the t-obtained was (2.23) which was higher than the t-table (1.645) with degree of freedom 32 + 32 – 2 = 62 and (α)= 0,05 So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted which means that there is significant difference between TTW (Think, Talk, Write) strategy and conventional technique. Then t-obtained both of classes is (2.23) which was higher than t-table (1.645) with (α)= 0,05. So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted which means that TTW (Think, Talk, Write) strategy give better result than conventional technique in writing descriptive text. So, it can be concluded that the entire hypothesis is accepted. It is proved that using TTW (Think, Talk, Write) strategy as a writing strategy that can help the students in improving their writing descriptive text. Keywords: Writing Skill, Descriptive Text, TTW(Think, Talk, Write) Strategy