Writing is the way to express ideas in written form using letters, words, art
or media, and it requires mental process in order to express the ideas. Descriptive
text is a kind of text that has a purpose to give the information about something or
someone. Mind mapping technique (Mind Map) is the use of whole brain using
visual images and the other graphics to form an impression between left brain and
right brain are involved, making it easier to enter information into the brain. The
aims of the study are to describe the implementation and students interest toward
mind mapping. This study used descriptive qualitative. The subject of the study is
the teacher and the students. The researcher used observation field note, students
interview and students questionnaire. The implementation of writing descriptive
text use mind mapping technique there are three steps, the first the teacher
greeting, check attendance list, gave a brainstorming to the students. The second,
the teacher explained about descriptive text, gave feedback to the students. The
third, the teacher explained about mind mapping technique, the teacher gave
group assignment to writing descriptive text use mind mapping, and also had
summary about the lesson. All of the students` are interested in learning writing
descriptive text by using mind mapping it is provide by the result of questionnaire
that 75% are interested in this technique.