Writing is an important skill which must be taught to students. Based on the researcher’s observation and the explanation from the English teacher of MA.Infarul Ghoy, Semarang Mrs Elyana Anggarini, S.Pd about the problem faced by the students in learning English, the students had some problems in writing such as the students could’nt write well because of their limited vocabulary and the problems of organization. The printed media could be helpful to cope with those problems. The objectives of the study are: 1) To identify the students’ writing ability of descriptive text before being taught by using printed media at the tenth grade of MA. Infarul Ghoy Pedurungan Semarang in the academic year of 2016/2017 2)To identify the students’ writing ability of descriptive text after being taught by using printed media at the tenth grade of MA. Infarul Ghoy Pedurungan Semarang in the academic year of 2016/2017 3)To identify if there is any significant difference of students’ writing ability of descriptive text before and after being taught by using printed media at the tenth grade of MA.Infarul Ghoy Pedurungan Semarang in the academic year of 2016/2017. The research used a quantitative measurement to find the result. The population of this study was tenth grade students of MA.Infarul Ghoy, Semarang. Class X-IPA was choosen as an experimental class and class X-IPS was choosen as a control class. The t-test result obtained <α (0,05) this shows that control class was 47,80 with deviation standard 8,26. Based on the result of this research, the researcher concludes that printed media was effective to teach students’ writing ability at MA.Infarul Ghoy, Semarang in the academic year of 2016/2017. The researcher suggest that printed media may be used as alternative technique in teaching writing descriptive text. Finally the result of this research shows that students’ ability improved in each cycle after they were taught using printed media.the improvements of each writing components, content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanic.