Clarification of First Writing Assignment

I've received a couple of good questions about the first writing assignments. Here are clarifications based on these questions.

Clarification of the second writing assignment:

• While I would like you to read the introductions from all your classmates, please *don't* write a response to every classmate, pick and choose those to whom you have some connection on which to build.

Clarification of third writing assignment:

• For each of the three rhetorical situations you analyze, record the message and then answer each of the questions. This combination of message and your answers to the question constitutes your analysis of the message/rhetorical situation.
  

As always, write with questions.