Edge on English, Inc., was founded and incorporated by Sally Diessner in March 2006.
Ms. Diessner graduated
from California State University, Northridge's graduate program
in English (concentration in rhetoric and composition theory) in December 2005.
Sally J. Diessner, M.A.,
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ms. Diessner’s master's thesis research study, "Critical Reading Strategies of First-Year Composition Students: A Reading-Writing Connections Study," had a large pool of survey respondents (691 beginning-of-semester students and 534 end-of-semester students). For information on this research study, please access this Diessner 2005 Research Study link.
Prior to establishing Edge on English in 2006, Ms. Diessner taught English 155: Freshman Composition at CSU Northridge from 2004-2006. From 2007 to present, she has been teaching College Writing and a Writers Workshop at Columbia College Hollywood (Tarzana, CA) and providing freelance editing and photo specs for McGraw-Hill Publishing (Woodland Hills, CA). Since January 2008, Ms. Diessner has also been teaching two College Composition courses at Oxnard College (Oxnard, CA). In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Ms. Diessner is currently producing a DVD video on the argument genre.
Previously, Ms. Diessner worked at UCLA from 1995-2003, first as an administrative assistant in UCLA’s Department of Neurology (1995-1996) and UCLA’s Cancer Therapy Development Program (1996-1997), then as an editorial assistant (1997-1999) and senior editor (2000-2003) at the UCLA editorial office of The Library Quarterly, a library and information science journal produced by the University of Chicago Press.
Prior to 1995, Ms. Diessner and her family lived in Shoreview, Minnesota. Her 1994 Bachelor of Individualized Studies undergraduate degree is in Professional Editing & Creative Writing; Film Studies & Video Production; and Rhetoric.
