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Many students are committing mistake in writing by showing some errors in written product. The existing approach to teach ESP writing applied by the teachers is still using traditional grammar. Systemic Functional Linguistics offer a new perspective in analysing students' text which focuses on meaning and function behind the language. The study analysed students' recount texts which are purposively chosen as it used qualitative case study design. The result of the study showed that students already understand the social function of recount text, most students are not aware of writing re-orientation in the text, the other problem is that students mostly misuses past tense in recount text, the last problem faced by students is in interpersonal meta-function. The students have problem in constructing the Mood of the sentence because they miss the finite or the subject. Since the problem encountered by students need to be solved, a strategy known as POWER was proposed to help students in overcoming the problems.