About

Mission Statement:

Revision Editing holds at its core the wish to make applicants better writers, and Dr. Kleinneiur-McEntire earnestly upholds the highest ethical standards. Each editing session is an intense private tutorial on writing and rhetorical analysis. The personalized commentaries Dr. McEntire sends explain the genre of the personal statement, but they also provide a lesson in powerful writing, a skill transferable to any career. Dr. McEntire is careful, kind-hearted, and highly experienced.

Company:

Revision Editing is a San Francisco Bay Area-based company providing individualized editing of personal statements for law school applications. The service-based company operates out of Redwood City, California, near Stanford University, and can be found on the web at www.revisionediting.com. Revision Editing is a sole proprietorship owned and managed by Joann Kleinneiur-McEntire, Ph.D. Founded in February 2009, Revision arose from the collaboration between Ken DeLeon, J.D. and Joann K. McEntire, Ph.D. on the website Top-Law-Schools.com. What began as a series of articles offering in-depth advice on writing personal essays for law school became a co-authored book on this topic in 2009. Revision offers law school applicants the highest quality private editing services available.

Editor-in-Chief:

The owner and sole editor, Joann K. McEntire, Ph.D., received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University in 1999, and received her Ph.D. in English literature from Stanford University in 2007. Joann is an expert in rhetorical analysis and composition, as well as in the personal essay genre. She has taught in the nationally-acclaimed Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. She has also taught in the intense writing and critical thinking seminars in the Introduction to Humanities (IHUM) Program at Stanford University. Joann is the co-author of Top-Law-Schools.com Guide to Personal Statements. From beginning to end, Joann edits every personal essay submitted to Revision Editing herself.