Name : nurhidayani student no. : 0606102050020 study program : english education title : the students’ strategies used in writing narrative text by second grade students of mtsn rukoh banda aceh writing may be considered as the most difficult and complicated skill among the four language skills. nevertheless, it should be mastered by junior high school students. the aim of this research is to investigate the strategies used by the students in writing. the objectives of this research are to find out strategies used by the students in writing narrative text and the dominantly used strategy in writing narrative text. this research was conducted at second year in mts negeri rukoh. the population was 148 students. then, the researcher used purposive sampling in deciding the students as research subject and the students’ strategies in writing narrative text as research object. the sample of this research is 29 students from higher achievement level. the reason for choosing this