About

The Company:

Revision Grad is a division of Revision Editing, 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 Redwood City, California, near Stanford University, and can be found on the web at www.revisionediting.com. Revision Grad 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 Kleinneiur-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. Writing this book, Dr. McEntire realized that she loved the personal essay genre, and her main scholarly interest has become this genre in its various manifestations from the sixteenth century to the present. Sitting on the doctoral admissions committee in the English department at Stanford University brought home to Dr. McEntire the importance of making a personal statement enjoyable to read while offering a strong argument about research goals. Dr. McEntire is thrilled to be able help applicants to master's and doctoral programs in the humanities, engineering, and sciences compose the most powerful personal statement possible.

Joann Kleinnieur-McEntire, Ph.D.

The owner and sole 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. Dr. McEntire's scholarly background is in eighteenth-century and Romantic literature. She 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. Dr. McEntire is the co-author of Top-Law-Schools.com Guide to Personal Statements.