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.
In this workshop you will explore practices that motivate students to write and help them develop into independent, motivated writers. These effective practices include allowing students to make their own choices about their writing, helping them keep a writer's notebook in which to record their thoughts and draw inspiration, and providing opportunities for students to write for authentic audiences.