This descriptive research is aimed to find out the students' difficulties in writing Analytical Exposition Texts at the second-year students of SMA N 13 Pekanbaru and to analyze the students’ difficulties in writing Analytical Exposition Text at the second-year students of SMA N 13 Pekanbaru. The population of this research was the second year students of SMA N 13 Pekanbaru in the academic ye…