Students’Strategies in Writing Narrative Text at Grade XI IPS 3 SMAN 9 Padang

Writing task is a difficult task for students. In order to overcome this problem, the students must have strategies. There are some strategies in writing narrative text. They are: first, topic formulation, topic discussion, and making outline strategies in pre-writing strategy, second, moitoring strategy, and adaptive technique strategies in whilst-writing strategy and third, revising, and editing startegies in post- writing strategy. These strategies can help students in writing a good essay. This study aims to observing the students’ strategies in writing narrative text at the second year of SMAN 9 Padang. There were five classes of XI IPS. XI IPS 3 was chosen as the sample. The method used in this study was descriptive research. The data were collected through observation, questionnaires, and interview. It found that, in pre writing strategy, students used formulate the topic strategy. Based on the research, 26,25% the students always used formulation strategies in pre-writing strategy. In whilst writing strategy, 28,83% students used monitoring strategy, and in post writing strategy, 29.73% students used editing. It can be concluded that, most students used formulating topic as strategy in pre writing narrative text, monitoring strategy in whilst-writing, and editing strategy in post – writing strategy. Students wrote what they know much about the topic was the most dominant in the writing narrative text