The paper reviews the design and practice of the research-oriented teaching model in the course of civil engineering drawing. The teaching practice of the “housing construction drawing” is selected as an example of the application of this model. Task-driven approach is adopted in the teaching design in order to adapt to the characteristics of students. The focus is put on several major links such as the classroom teaching, instruction and training after class in the teaching design so as to guide the students to conduct research-oriented study. Students’ work is roundly evaluated from their standard, content, dimensioning, symbolic expression, written style and general aspects of the drawings. Teaching practice shows that this model can mobilize students' enthusiasm, expand their knowledge, and develop their engineering quality and team cooperation spirit, and at the same time, drawing quality is improved obviously and good teaching effect is achieved.