The problem is, though, that students are being graduated and then admitted into colleges without being able to write. Unless the student is enrolled in a remedial program of some sort, it should not be the responsibility of the COLLEGE professor to teach basic writing skills. I agree that college English/creative writing professors should help hone and enhance those skills of their students, but they shouldn't have to teach them how to write an introductory sentence for a paragraph or even what a paragraph is (something a professor I know recently related).