The development of English analytical exposition text at SMAN 2 Sidoarjo

This research discusses the development of English in analytical exposition text. The aim of this content analysis research is to know how is to analyse the development of analytical exposition text by 32 students at first year at SMAN 2 Sidoarjo. The result showed that most of students made excellent thesis, excellent result in arguments part, good score in reiteration, and excellent in logical development of English analytical exposition. Most of students are capable to develop the thesis statement and to control the idea of each paragraph in analytical exposition because there are transitional signals, important points in arguments, background of the main idea, and detail explanation. The result showed that the students’ text in reiteration part is weak because of incomplete to summarizing is too brief in restating the thesis statement and does not hold the idea well. This study indicates the students can develop the English analytical exposition because it contains thesis statement, the background, logic arguments, well controlling the topic, transitional signals to connect paragraph-to-paragraph, restates in conclusion, unity, and coherence in the text but need to improve the ability in developing good reiteration.