The objectives of this study were to know the implementation STOP and DARE strategy at eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Puding Besar, and to find out any significant differences in writing improvement between the students who are taught STOP and DARE strategy and the students who are taught by non-STOP and DARE strategy in teaching writing of analytical exposition text at eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Puding Besar.

In this study the researcher used experimental research with a quasi-experimental design. The data were obtained by means of the test. The results of the test were analyzed by using independent sample t-test in SPSS 17. Based on the findings of the study, the results of independent sample t-test of the students’ post-test between experimental group and control group showed that significant (2-tailed) was 0.408, t-obtained was 2.834, critical value of t-table was 2.00 and degree of freedom was 62. Since the p-output or the significant (2-tailed) was 0.001, lower than computation with level significant 0.05, and t-obtained 2.834 was higher than critical value of t-table 2.00, therefore the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted.

It could be concluded that there was a significant difference between the students who were taught by using STOP and DARE strategy and the students who were not taught by using non- STOP and DARE strategy.