On a Monday morning, Suzanne Glass walked into her class room at Brooklyn College where she teaches an Arts in Journalism Seminar, and asked her students if they were interested in "ripping her story apart," before it was to be published in the Financial Times.
The 17 students who had been told she was writing a profile on Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), went all out to find grammatical and typographical mistakes.
Almost everyone had a comment to make on Glass's article, whether it was to point out an error or suggest to change a subtitle. They were not afraid to express their opinions.
Glass is always correcting her students when they mispronounce a word or speak vernacularly, to improve their way of speaking. And she welcomes her students' criticism of her.
"I'm not letting you get away with speaking sloppy English anymore, I'm done with it," the tiny and delicate professor told her students after someone pronounced a word incorrectly.
After Glass's students pointed out the mistakes in her piece, one of them suggested that she should change a controversial subtitle that her editor had put in the story. Glass agreed with her student and on the break of the class phoned her editor and told him to changed the subtitle as her student had suggested.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, she earned a bachelor's degree in education and French at Cambridge and a master's in simultaneous interpretation at the University of Zurich.
She had a column in the Financial Times called "Through The Looking Glass" from 2000 to 2004, and occasionally writes for them now.
Her first novel, "The Interpreter," was later used for a film starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. Its main character is an interpreter who overhears confidential medical information that jeopardizes her career. Glass herself was an interpreter for over five years for the EEC European Community and quit interpreting when she felt "sick of being a parrot."
The 17 students who had been told she was writing a profile on Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), went all out to find grammatical and typographical mistakes.
Almost everyone had a comment to make on Glass's article, whether it was to point out an error or suggest to change a subtitle. They were not afraid to express their opinions.
Glass is always correcting her students when they mispronounce a word or speak vernacularly, to improve their way of speaking. And she welcomes her students' criticism of her.
"I'm not letting you get away with speaking sloppy English anymore, I'm done with it," the tiny and delicate professor told her students after someone pronounced a word incorrectly.
After Glass's students pointed out the mistakes in her piece, one of them suggested that she should change a controversial subtitle that her editor had put in the story. Glass agreed with her student and on the break of the class phoned her editor and told him to changed the subtitle as her student had suggested.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, she earned a bachelor's degree in education and French at Cambridge and a master's in simultaneous interpretation at the University of Zurich.
She had a column in the Financial Times called "Through The Looking Glass" from 2000 to 2004, and occasionally writes for them now.
Her first novel, "The Interpreter," was later used for a film starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. Its main character is an interpreter who overhears confidential medical information that jeopardizes her career. Glass herself was an interpreter for over five years for the EEC European Community and quit interpreting when she felt "sick of being a parrot."
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