What causes bipolar disorder may also be involved in schizoaffective disorder. Researchers have been investigating whether common biologic factors are involved in the cause of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, schizoaffective and manic syndromes, as schizophrenic and bipolar disorder are similar in many respects.
Education Life. Why Writers Love to Hate the M.F.A. It was peak reading season, and Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writersâ Workshop, was gamely juggling a call from a reporter, interruptions from her 7-year-old as well as a 10 percent surge in applications to the University of Iowaâs Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing.
1 We believe that this unnatural separation can be bridged by acknowledging creative nonfiction as the fourth genre. 2  That is, we think of creative nonfiction simultaneously as a form of literature, as a goal of creative writing, and as the aesthetic impulse in composition..