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ABSTRACT DESI NONITA, 2315.047. The Effect of Using Blog on Procedure Text at MA.KM Muhammadiyah. A Thesis, UIN SMDD Bukittinggi, 2022. This research was due to several problems found in the field in Learning English in writing. The minimum completeness criteria (KKM) in English at MA.KM Muhammadiyah were 80, but the average student got a score of 77-79. Besides, the teacher taught the material of English still using text book and whiteboard. When the teacher explained in the class, there were students who paid less attention. Students did other activities outside of pay attention the teacher such as; talk to other friends, sleepy, and there was a student that writing or drawing when the teacher explained in front of the class. The teacher still used conventional method so that, students was less interest and less interactive. As a result, some students were lazy to write a text with their common reason that was limited on vocabulary, still confused in grammar and they could not add ideas in doing the given task. In English teaching in writing, there was media can help the students improve their writing skills on procedure text. One of the media was using blog in writing. This research used quasi experimental quantitative research. The population of this research was XI grade of MA.KM Muhammadiyah. The sample was 37 students from class XI ITT and XI IPS. Class XI IPS used as control where the researcher used media unattractive on procedure text. While class XI ITT was used as experimental class in which the treatment gave using blog as media in teaching on procedure text. The researcher used Simple Random Sampling in choosing the sample. In this research, researcher used Liliefors test to test the normality and F-test to test homogeneity. Then, to test the hypothesis the researcher used t-test and (α) = 0.05. The findings in this research showed that the result of the pre-test and post-test scores of the experiment class t-obtained (6.676) was higher than the t-table (2.032) with degree of freedom (df) = 34. The alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected which meant that there was significant effect of using blog in writing. Then the calculation of post-test of both classes, experiment class and control class was as follow, it obtained that the t-obtained (2.171) which was higher than the t-table (2.030) with degree of freedom (df) = 35. The alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected which meant that there was significant difference score writing in the control class and in the experimental class after using blog. It concluded that the entire hypothesis was accepted. It proved that using blog as writing could help the students in improving their ability in writing. Key Words: The Effect of Using Blog, Procedure text, and Writing