Heather Mair, Recreation and Leisure Studies
Summary: Adapt this example of assignment instructions from REC 641 which permits GenAI use for specific purposes (generating a stakeholder/interest holder analysis, a decision recommendation, or a planning framing for students’ chosen scenario) but not for others (drafting their paper, writing their analysis, or generating theoretical arguments).
Sample wording
This is the first assignment in the course where GenAI use is actively enabled. This is intentional. As community and recreation professionals, you will routinely encounter AI-generated planning documents, stakeholder/interest holder analyses, and policy briefs. The goal here is not to use AI to produce your work for you, it is to use it as an object of critical analysis: to practice reading AI-generated text the way you would read any planning document, with attention to what it assumes, who it centres, and what it leaves out. Think of GenAI as a planning actor to be interrogated, not a writing assistant.
If you use GenAI, include a short appendix (not included in word total) containing:
- Your prompt(s),
- The AI output (unedited), and
- A brief note on how you used it in your analysis.
You may use it to generate a stakeholder/interest holder analysis, a decision recommendation, or a planning framing for your chosen scenario. You may not use it to draft your paper, write your analysis, or generate your theoretical arguments.
The University of Waterloo encourages you to use Microsoft Copilot (with your UW account), for which we have an institutional license, meaning that your sensitive information will not be shared with or used to train other models: Approved AI Tools. Please see UW’s Responsible Use of AI tools for more information.