About Us
Our Mission Statement:
As more applicants compete for limited positions at top graduate and professional schools, demand for the highest possible quality of applications has risen. Both Revision Editing and Top-Law-Schools.com are committed to offering as much useful information on applying for advanced degrees as possible. Revision Editing holds at its core the wish to make applicants better writers. Each editing session is an intense private tutorial on writing and rhetorical analysis with a doctor of philosophy. The tutorials explain the genre of the personal statement, but they also provide a lesson in powerful writing, a skill transferable to any career. We want our customers to think of us as the highest-quality personal statement editing service available. We have the most training and the most insight into the personal statement genre. We are careful, kind-hearted, and highly experienced. Revision Editing: Your guide to strong personal statements!
Our Company:
Revision Editing is a San Francisco Bay Area-based company providing individualized editing of personal statements for graduate and professional school applications. The service-based company operates out of Emerald Hills, 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, Ph.D. Founded in February 2009, Revision arose from the collaboration between Ken DeLeon, J.D. and Joann Kleinneiur, Ph.D. on the website Top-Law-Schools.com. What began as a series of articles offering in-depth advice on writing personal statements for law school became a co-authored book on this topic in 2009. Top-Law-Schools.com receives over one million page-views per month and has become the number one website for law school application advice. Teaming up with Top-Law-Schools.com, Revision Editing offers law school applicants the highest quality private editing services available. The editors chose the abbreviation and nickname "Vis" because this means "strong" or "powerful" in Latin, and strength and power are the elements we try to cultivate in each personal statement.
Our Editor-in-Chief:
The owner and top editor, Joann Kleinnieur, 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. She oversees all the personal statement editing at Revision.