Renee Prymus
- Teaching Associate Professor, First-Year Engineering Composition Program Director
Renee's Affiliations: Vibrant Media Lab, Swanson School of Engineering, First Year Programs
Renee Prymus is a Teaching Associate Professor and the Director of the First-Year Engineering Composition Program. She also teaches other courses in composition, currently Writing for the Sciences. Renee has been teaching at Pitt since 2007 and has also worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a writing consultant for graduate students in the Department of Chemistry.
Renee enjoys breaking open the traditional five-paragraph essay and inviting students into personal and academic inquiry. She specializes in first-year composition and science writing.
Courses Taught
ENGCMP 0530: Writing for the Sciences
ENGCMP 0412: Engineering Communication in a Professional Setting
ENGCMP 0210: Seminar in Composition: Engineering
ENGCMP 0207: Seminar in Composition: Education
ENGCMP 0200: Seminar in Composition
FP 0003: First-Year Seminar: Fun & Games
FP 0003: First-Year Seminar: Writing the Spiritual
ENGCMP 0152: ESL Workshop in Composition
ENGCMP 0550: Professional Editing in Context
ENGWRT 1330: Intermediate Nonfiction
ENGWRT 0610: Introduction to Journalism and Nonfiction
FP 0001: Academic Foundations
Writing Center
Education & Training
- Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction, University of Pittsburgh (2010)
- Master of Ministries, Bethel College (2007)
Representative Publications
“A Description and Evaluation of a Team-Based Composition Course Integrated into a First-Year Engineering Program,” American Society of Engineering Education (2025)
“Keeping Score,” Creative Nonfiction (2019)
Research Interests
First-Year Composition, Engineering Education, Science Writing, Gamification in Education