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Indah Meilany, Reg No. 2030104027, entitled: “Exploring Procedures in Writing Textbooks in English for Specific Purposes Subject” (A Study of the Fifth Semester English Students of UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar Registered in 2023/2024 Academic Year). English Teaching Department Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Islamic State University of Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. This research is motivated by the problem of difficulties faced by students when writing textbooks so that proper writing procedures are needed. The purpose of this study is to exploring procedures in writing textbooks in the English for Specific Purposes Subject. The type of this research is qualitative research with descriptive qualitative design. The technique used in taking informants is purposive sampling. The informants in this research are students who have taken English for Specific Purposes subject in the 2023/2024 academic year. The number of informants who use procedures in writing textbooks is 10 informants. The instrument used to collect the data is an interview. The supporting instruments in this research are interview guidelines, audio recordings, and documentation. To test the validity of the data, researcher used an extension of participation, namely by conducting additional interviews if there was insufficient or dubious data or information related to the agreement requested by the informant during the first interview. To analyze the data, researcher refer to the theory (Miles and Huberman in Ilahi, 2020), namely data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing, and data verification. Researcher conducted interviews based on the interview guide, then analyzed the results of the interviews, drew conclusions, and verified the research findings. The results of this reseacrh show that there are nine procedures used by students in writing textbooks as the final project of the English for specific purposes subject. These procedures are: 1) Making guidline 2) Decide on tittle 3) Doing observation 4) Writing action plan 5) Use idea generation 6) Drafting 7) Revising 8) Editing 9) Publishing.