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  • Writing is usually considered as the most difficult skill to master for the students who are learning English. It has many complex processes such as prewriting, drafting, editing, and revising. Based on the KTSP (school based curriculum), the most recent curriculum used in schools in Indonesia, takes the genre approach. One of the genres introduced in the eleventh year of senior high school is analytical exposition. In fact, the writer found some problems in conveying the English material to the students. Besides structure and vocabulary, the students get difficulties in generating idea. Because of those, an effort done to solve the problem is by using LEET. LEET can help the students to organize their thoughts. It is effective way to improve the ability in writing analytical exposition text. The purposes of this study are to find out, first, the ability in writing analytical exposition text of the eleventh grade students of SMA N 2 Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 who are before being taught by using LEET. The second, the ability in writing analytical exposition text of the eleventh grade students of SMA N 2 Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 who are taught by using LEET. The third is to find out whether there is significant difference between the ability in writing analytical exposition text of the eleventh grade students of SMA N 2 Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 who are before and after being taught by using LEET. Subject of this research were eleventh grade students of SMA N 2 Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 with the number of students was 32 students from the population 298 students chosen randomly. The design of this research is experimental research. The instrument used to collect the data is written test. The result of this study shows that the students’ ability in writing analytical exposition text before being taught by using LEET is fair (Mean 69.53 and Standard deviation 5.4). Meanwhile, the students’ ability in writing analytical exposition text after being taught by using LEET is good (Mean 77.97 and Standard deviation 5.82). From this data result, it can be shown that the score of post test is higher than pretest. The result of t-observation is higher than t-table that uses level of significant 5% (11.43>2.04). Based on the findings some recommendations are proposed. English teacher should use LEET as prewriting technique in process of learning English. The writer also recommends the students to apply LEET to help them improving their writing ability.