Abstract: The course An Introduction to Literature has an important status among all courses of the Chinese major. However, due to various reasons, either subjective or objective, the teaching quality and effect of this course has not been so ideal in many universities for years. And Neijiang Normal University is not an exception. Therefore, how to achieve the effective teaching has been the issue in the teaching exploration of this course. Through practice, the author of this paper believes that we should do more work in three aspects: teaching preparation, implementation and evaluation. Only in this way can we guarantee the students' enthusiasm of participation in the construction of the course and hence achieve the effective teaching.