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			<p>Did you know that researchers spend about half of their professional lives doing academic and technical writing? For example, research students spend at least a third of their studies writing their theses, without counting papers, and bids for grants.</p>
			<p>Technical writing includes a lot of different types of texts, such as scientific papers, technical reports, manuals, tutorials, and so on.</p>
			<h2>Things I have done</h2>
			<p>I have some experience in writing technical reports and tutorials, and my refereed publications are evidence that I can write at an academic level. Here are some examples.</p>
			<h3>Tutorials</h3>
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				<li>Series of “<a href="//blog.morpheu5.net/categoria/learn-to-code/page/2/">Learn to code</a>” posts on my personal blog (in Italian)</li>
				<li>Series on Drupal for the Italian magazine <a href="//www.oltrelinux.com">Linux&amp;C</a>, in issues <a href="<?=$baseurl?>files/LC73_drupal.pdf">73</a>, <a href="<?=$baseurl?>files/LC74_drupal.pdf">74</a>, <a href="<?=$baseurl?>files/LC75_drupal.pdf">75</a></li>
				<li>Series on Inkscape for the Italian magazine <a href="//www.oltrelinux.com">Linux&amp;C</a>, in issues <a href="<?=$baseurl?>files/LC64_inkscape.pdf">64</a>, <a href="<?=$baseurl?>files/LC67_inkscape.pdf">67</a></li>
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			<h3>Other (more or less) technical writing</h3>
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				<li><a href="https://hackernoon.com/the-vizcoin-revolution-8a6f12fc5df6">The #VIZcoin revolution</a> (hackernoon.com)</li>
				<li><a href="https://hackernoon.com/kotlin-is-cheating-on-me-e048cde4f66">Kotlin is cheating on me…</a> (hackernoon.com)</li>
				<li><a href="https://hackernoon.com/android-is-hard-b7a5a5549655">Android is hard</a> (hackernoon.com)</li>
				<li><a href="https://hackernoon.com/how-i-messed-up-my-artsy-apps-launch-e684111de532">How I messed up my artsy app’s launch</a> (hackernoon.com)</li>
				<li><a href="https://medium.com/@morpheu5/how-i-made-an-artsy-app-based-in-science-a3690164a9ce">How I made an artsy app based on science</a> (medium.com)</li>
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			<h3>Refereed publications</h3>
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				<li>A. Franceschini, R. Laney, C. Dobbyn (2016) “<a href="<?=$baseurl?>files/met2016.pdf" title="PDF, 87 KB">Sketching music: making music through exploring art</a>”. In <em>Proceedings of Sempre: Music, Education, Technology (MET2016)</em>, London, UK.</li>
				<li>Franceschini, Andrea, Robin Laney, and Chris Dobbyn. (2014). “<a href="<?=$baseurl?>files/icmcsmc2014.pdf">Learning musical contour on a tabletop</a>”. Joint ICMC/SMC 2014, Athens, Greece.</li>
				<li>Franceschini, Andrea. (2010). “<a href="<?=$baseurl?>files/smc2010.pdf">Towards a practical approach to music theory on the Reactable</a>”. SMC 2010, Barcelona, Spain.</li>
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			<h3>Other academic works</h3>
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				<li>PhD thesis: <a href="<?=$baseurl?>files/phd-thesis.pdf" title="PDF, 8.1 MB">Learning to use melodic similarity and contrast for narrative using a Digital Tabletop Musical Interface</a></li>
				<li>Master thesis: <a href="<?=$baseurl?>files/master_thesis.pdf">A practical approach to Music Theory on the Reactable</a></li>
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			<p class="calltoaction">Need something written? <a href="<?=$baseurl?>contact">Get in touch!</a></p>
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