This study investigated color-coded graphic organizer for empowering students' writing. The main aim was to know the students' writing after colorcoded graphic organizer was applied. Following action research methodology, the study discussed the students' writing from two sources: writing and questionnaire. The questionnaire result showed that the biggest problematic sentences was detail sentences, 76%. The writing result after the first intervention showed that the students' writing were vary: their topic was written clearly and the details were correlating the topic; the orientation was written completely, the complicatiton and reorientation were organized well; their sentences were grammatically good except four students; their vocabularies were not very poor; their sentences were written in an appropriate mechanic. However, the writing result after the second intervention showed that there was a student who could not fullfill the criterias of good writing which were about content, organization, grammar, vocabulary and mechanic. In short, the writer could say that color-coded graphic organizer empowered the students' writing. It linked planning stage with drafting and a writing product.