Again, let me assure you: no. You pretty much work with what you're given. Nobody teaches basic English at the college level unless they're being paid specifi

Again, let me assure you: no. You pretty much work with what you're given. Nobody teaches basic English at the college level unless they're being paid specifically to bring remedial students up to speed (and before you ask: yes, that includes freshman English class). I've taught a few "writing intensive" lab courses, but that basically meant that we forced the students to write a lot, and that we were allowed to brutalize them for crappy writing (roughly 85% of the students). We spent no time teaching them how to write, nor could we: we barely had time to teach the subject at hand.