Confusion

So I gave this assignment to my Production Planning class via email when I had to cancel because of an illness. For some reason it seems to be incomprehensible. I can't tell why...

I am sorry to say that I have been sidelined by a fairly nasty stomach virus or something. So I am going to have to cancel class tomorrow. In lieu of meeting I would like to give you what I hope is an 80 minute assignment covering the same topic. Class tomorrow was scheduled to be about information distribution, memos and email.

Please locate an article from a newspaper or magazine, offline or on, about information distribution within a project group. Read the article and then write a one page summary explaining:

1. what the article was saying
2. what the main points were
3. how this advice would work/fit within the kind of environment we’ve been discussing
4. your opinion of the argument
5. proper MLA citation of the piece you read.

This will be worth 10 points and will replace any existing 10 points worth of homework (applied to a single assignment).

Please submit this assignment by email, to me, by the end of the day Friday. I will then cobble together everyone’s work into a memo/email guide that should be at least as informative as my lecture would have been and redistribute it to the class for your use.

I apologize again for having to cancel class. I hope I will see you Monday.

They were supposed to find an article about email or memos in a project group situation and write a summary. Is it really that confusing?