Key Words: Using Mind Mapping, Writing, Recount Text. The title of this research is “Using Mind Mapping in Improving Students’ Writing Skill in Recount Text of Eight Graders of MTsN Tanjunganom Nganjuk”. The fact emerging from the preliminary study done at MTsN Tanjunganom Nganjuk, the students have low writing skill and most students were passive and not enthusiastic in the writing le…