A zero-credit course that may be taken in conjunction with any 300- or 400-level course in any department. The course provides opportunity to practice the skills and techniques of effective academic writing and satisfies the learning outcomes of the Stony Brook Curriculum's WRTD learning objective. Students must request that the faculty member teaching the course for which the paper is written email their approval of the student enrollment in WRT 459 to the undergraduate program director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric.