Increasing importance has been attached to genres in English academic writing instruction in recent years.This study puts forward a six-step Genre-Based Instruction（ GBI） approach（ deconstructing,modeling,identifying,imitating,peer reviewing and independent writing）,and adopts it to teach academic writing of literature reviews to junior English majors. The data from the instruction practice show that the GBI approach plays an important role in guiding the students to write well-organized and academically accepted literature reviews,and the ...
